Piecing together disparate data for economic and market insights
This appeared in India Today (link) By Neelkanth Mishra | ISSUE DATE: Jan 13, 2025 | UPDATED: Jan 5, 2025 17:09 IST Global economic growth in the calendar year 2025 (CY2025) is currently projected to be unchanged from CY2024 at 3.2 per cent. Given that this is weaker than the growth in the pre-pandemic years, … Read more
Neelkanth Mishra | Sep 16, 2024, 11:40:00 PM IST This appeared in the Economic Times on 17 September 2024 (link). The economy has slowed over the past few months. Sales growth has decelerated for both consumption items like cars, and for proxies of investment like cement. This was visible in the June quarter GDP report, … Read more
The ratio of bank loans to GDP, a measure of banking penetration, is among the lowest in the worldNeelkanth Mishra | Last Updated at March 6, 2017 22:50 IST (This was published in the Business Standard: link) Growth in bank loans is at a 50-year low when financial savings are rising: As a percentage of … Read more