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2020

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Credit ratings agency CRISIL has pulled down the growth forecast for India’s GDP for the financial year 2020-21 by 50 basis points (bp) to how much percent?
A
5.5 %
B
5.2 %
C
5.9 %
D
4.2 %
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -CRISIL has revised its forecast for India’s real gross domestic product (GDP) growth to 7 per cent for the current fiscal (2022-23) from 7.3 per cent estimated previously.

Detailed explanation-2: -"For India, the 2022 real GDP growth projections have been lowered to 7 per cent from 7.7 per cent. The downward revision assumes higher inflation, high-interest rates and slowing global growth will dampen economic momentum by more than we had previously expected, ” the agency said in its Global Macro Outlook 2023-24.

Detailed explanation-3: -“We have revised down our forecast for real gross domestic product growth to 7 per cent for fiscal 2023 from 7.3 per cent, primarily because of the slowdown in global growth that has started to impact our exports and industrial activity.

Detailed explanation-4: -The World Bank has revised its 2022-23 GDP forecast upward to 6.9 percent from 6.5 percent (in October 2022), considering a strong outturn in India in the second quarter (July-September) of the 2022-23 financial year.

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