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EAC’s candle in the wind

EAC’s candle in the wind

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At a time when every day brings in gloomy tidings, the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council (EAC) has cheerful news. It has estimated the Indian economy will grow by 7.5% in 2009-10 (see Page 4). It has pinned its hopes on inter-national growth reviving from mid-2009, something it feels will?boost?the?Indian?economy.

The projection, released on Friday, is in marked contrast to the pessimism displayed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. In a recent interview to BBC, IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn had painted a bleak economic outlook for the world.

He said IMF would issue a downward growth forecast for the world economy. Strauss-Kahn mentioned a cut of 0.5-1% in global growth from IMF’s earlier estimates. India, China and Brazil, he said, would “experience very slow growth". The world would not begin recovery before 2010.

EAC has issued a forecast that is not only unrealistically optimistic, but its timing of the recovery too seems to be way off the mark.

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Published: 24 Jan 2009, 01:01 AM IST
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