On Monday, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) lowered India’s growth forecast to 4.8% for the current fiscal year. Along with it, the IMF also lowered the world’s growth estimate.

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In its report, the IMF projected India’s economy to grow by 5.8%, which is 1.2% lower than its earlier prediction. The report further predicted the economy to grow by 6.5% in 2021-22, which is again 0.9% lower than the earlier prediction.

IMF also predicted the global economy to go up by 3.3% in the current calendar year, which is 0.1% lower than its previous estimates, and 3.4% in 2022, which is again 0.2% below its earlier estimates.

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According to Business Standard, IMF Economist, Gita Gopinath quoted in a blog post that the biggest contributor to the revision of global economic growth was India, where growth slowed sharply due to weak rural income and stress in the non-banking financial sector.

She added that the growth momentum should increase in the next year due to factors like the positive impact of corporation tax rate reduction.

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She, however, said that the global growth for 2020 remains highly uncertain as it majorly relies on improved outcomes for stressed economies like Iran, Turkey, Argentina and for under-performing emerging and developing economies such as Brazil, Mexico and India.

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On the other hand, the Managing Director of IMF, Kristalina Georgieva, said the reality is that the global growth remains sluggish, even as she mentioned that, by adding roughly 0.5% to the global growth, the monetary easing has played a major role in stabilising the global economy.

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She added that a more comprehensive solution would be needed if global growth slows down again in future.