India will catch up with China’s growth rate in 2016-17: World Bank WASHINGTON: Buoyed by the economic reform measures taken by the Indian government after coming to power in May last year, the World Bank has said that India would catch up with China’s growth in the year 2016-17. “According to our analysis, India will catch up with China’s growth in the year 2016 and 2017,” World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President Kaushik Basu told reporters. He was speaking on Tuesday at a conference call as the bank released the latest issue ‘Global Outlook: Disappointments, Divergences, and Expectations Global Economic Prospects,’ report. “China’s growth will remain high, but will begin to taper very gently, reaching 6.9 per cent in 2017,” Mr. Basu said. The World Bank in its report also forecast a growth rate of seven per cent each in the fiscal year 2016 and 2017 as against China’s 7 per cent and 6. 9 per cent respectively. This would be for the first time in recent past that India’s growth rate would catch up with that of the Asian giant China. The World Bank estimated a growth rate of 5.6 per cent in 2014 and has forecast a growth rate of 6.4 percent in 2015, while that of China as 7.4 (estimated) in 2014 and 7.1 per cent (forecast) in 2015.
Posted on: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 07:37:38 +0000
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