Crisil Sees GDP Growing At 7.9% in 2016-17

Mumbai: The country’s GDP can grow by 7.9 per cent next fiscal if the monsoon is normal and government implements the reform measures announced so far, domestic rating agency Crisil said on Friday. The growth forecast, highest by any house and even above the government’s own estimate of 7-7.75 per cent, has been arrived assuming a faster growth in agriculture, Crisil Chief Economist Dharmakirti Joshi said in a concall today. The country has faced weather shocks for three consecutive years, including two years of deficient rains in 2014 and 2015,…

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