Specialization Project
BY:- SIDDHARTH JAISWAL
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(CHRIST UNIVERSITY LAVASA)
PREFACE
Its A Review’, which consists of Indian growth based on Economics and Visualization methods using tools to study.This is not the Economic Survey of India but an Analysisusing Economics stream and Analytics for college Education.
This review takes stock of the state of the Indian economy and its journey in the last ten years and offers a brief sketch of the outlook for the economy in the coming years government’s policies and progress on various parameters in different sectors. It now appears very likely that the Indian economy will achieve a growth rate at or above 7% for FY24, and some predict it will achieve another year of 7% real growth in FY25 as well. If the prognosis for FY25 turns out to be right, that will mark the fourth year post-pandemic that the Indian economy will have grown at or over 7 per cent. That would be an impressive achievement, testifying to the resilience and potential of the Indian economy. It augurs well for the future. Some economists1 argue, with considerable merit, that not all growth is equal. They are right. It is one thing for India to grow at 8-9 per cent when the world economy is growing at 4 per cent, but it is another thing to grow at or above 7 per cent when the world economy is struggling to grow at 2 per cent. One unit of growth in the latter circumstance is qualitatively superior to the former. The marginal utility of growth in the second scenario is much higher. The global economy is struggling to maintain its recovery post-Covid because successive shocks have buffeted it. Some of them, such as supply chain disruptions, have returned in 2024. If they persist, they will impact trade flows, transportation costs, economic output and inflation worldwide. India will not be exempt from it, but having faced and seen off COVID and the energy and commodity price shocks of 2022, India is quietly confident of weathering the emerging disturbances. At least three trends will be with us in the coming years. The era of hyper-globalisation in global manufacturing is over. It does not mean that de-globalisation will be upon us any time soon, as countries are only now discovering the enormous integration of global supply chains that have taken place in the last few decades. So, an alternative to the globalisation of supply chains will take much longer to emerge if it ever does. However, that will not deter governments from pursuing onshoring and friend-shoring of production with a consequent impact on transportation, logistics costs, and, hence, the
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final prices of products. Recent events in the Red Sea may have brought back concerns over reliance on global supply chains, further
The Indian Economy: A Review to identify the slower growth in global trade in 2023. In other words, traditional economics leading to one’s way to growth will not be easy. This reinforces the need to lower logistics costs and invest in product quality to hold on to and expand market share in areas where India has an advantage. Closely related to this challenge is the advent of Artificial Intelligence with the profound and troubling questions it poses for growth in services trade and employment since technology might remove the advantage of cost competitiveness that countries exporting digital services enjoy. Third and arguably the most important is the energy transition challenge. Concerns over rising temperatures have led to a single-minded focus on reducing carbon emissions amidst the determination that the emission of greenhouse gases, particularly carbon, is the most significant causal factor. This has led to persistent demands from international organisations and advanced nations on developing nations to wean themselves off fossil fuels and switch to greener energy even as technological and resource obstacles remain and are not on offer from developed countries. It is a reality that, in the short run, there is a trade-off between economic growth and energy transition. In a growth-challenged post-Covid global economy, countries can ill afford to sacrifice the former for the latter. India is walking the fine line between the two more skilfully than other nations, with installed non-fossil fuel-based power generation capacity running ahead of targets. Importantly, India’s unwavering commitment to ensuring steady economic growth is generating resources for investment needed for climate change adaptation, building resilience, and mitigating emissions. The Indian economy is better placed than ever to take on these three key challenges because of the policies adopted and implemented in the last decade. The Union government has built infrastructure at a historically unprecedented rate, and it has taken the overall public sector capital investment from ₹5.6 lakh crore in FY15 to ₹18.6 lakh crore in FY24, as per budget estimates. That is a rise of 3.3X. Whether the total length of highways, freight corridors, number of airports, metro rail networks or the trans-sea link, the ramp-up of physical and digital infrastructure in the last ten years is real, tangible and transformative. The financial sector is healthy. Its balance sheet is stronger. It is willing to lend and is lending. Non-food credit growth, excluding personal loans, is growing at double-digit rates. The pursuit of inclusive development finds Indian households in good financial health. Fiftyone crore bank accounts under Jan Dhan Yojana now have total deposits of over ₹2.1 lakh crore. Over 55 per cent of them are women. In Dec. 2019, household financial assets were 86.2 per cent of GDP; liabilities were 33.4 per cent of GDP. In March 2023, these numbers were 103.1 per cent and 37.6 per cent, respectively. So, Net Financial Assets of households were 52.8 per cent of GDP in Dec. 2019, and by March 2023, it had improved to 65.5 per cent of GDP.
INDIAN ECONOMY: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
In 10 years, India has moved from the 10th largest economy of the world to the 5th largest economy of the world. In 10 years, India is now seen as a country with immense potential which is backed by impressive performance.” -Shri. Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India 1.1 Over the course of the last decade, India has showcased a robust and resilient growth story driven by perseverance, ingenuity, and vision. In the face of unprecedented challenges such as the Covid pandemic and geopolitical conflicts, the Indian economy has demonstrated a remarkable ability to bounce back and convert challenges into opportunities while striving to achieve strong, sustainable, balanced, and inclusive growth. The present chapter takes a look at the Indian growth experience since independence, the state of the economy as of 2014, when the government under Prime Minister Modi assumed power, the key drivers of growth of the present decade, and the outlook till 2030. The Indian Growth Story (1950 to 2014) 1.2 By the time India became independent, her share of world income had shrunk from 22.6 per cent in 1700 to 3.8 per cent in 19523 . To enable the economy to emerge from the shackles of the colonial regime as well as set itself on the path of growth and modernisation, the government in the 1950s adopted a strategy aimed at achieving economic sufficiency. This period was characterised by rapid industrialisation, which involved raising a massive amount of resources and investing them in the creation of large industrial state-owned enterprises (SOEs). The decadal average growth rate for this period (1952-60) was 3.9 per cent. However, the 1960s witnessed the Indian economy going through several doldrums. The 1962 SinoIndian war and the 1965-66 India-Pakistan war, combined with severe drought in 1965, had significant repercussions on the Indian economy. High rates of taxation and pervasive control of the economy also played a key role in the growth trajectory of the economy slowing down during this period and posting a decadal growth rate of 4.1 per cent in the 1960s.
Growth Exoerience:-
Lessons from the growth experience till 2014 1.7 The growth experience that has been elaborated on in the previous section provides some interesting insights into the key features whose accumulated impact characterised the Indian economy as was inherited by Prime Minister Modi’s government in 2014. 1.8 First, the Indian economy transitioned from a closed economy to an open economy6 . The period from 1950-1980 was characterised by import substitution, export subsidies, and stringent restraints on technology and investment cooperation. Substantial controls on capacity expansion and licensing requirements for manufacturing industries were also imposed during this period. The post-1980 period featured several pro-business reforms amid the realisation that the controlled regime was not delivering the expected results. These policy changes included import liberalisation, export incentives, exchange rate policies, and expansionary fiscal policy. These reforms were argued to have a productivity-enhancing effect, as well as a demand-boosting effect facilitated by better credit availability and high levels of public expenditure7 . Simultaneously, they were enabled by unsustainable investments and questionable loans, opaque allocation of natural resources, and high fiscal deficits fuelling high inflation and external imbalances, resulting in the BOP crisis of 1990-91. The BOP crisis triggered a complete overhauling of economic policies to a market economy. Significant trade policy reforms along with revamping of industrial policies, including the withdrawal of industrial licensing and liberalisation of foreign direct investment (FDI), were introduced.
INVESTMENT AND SAVINGS
Saving, Investment and National Income
Trends
Saving rate has steadily increased over time, from an extremely low base of 9.0 percent in 1950-51 to 37.7 percent in 2007-08 (Chart 1). A significant positive and robust relationship between growth rate and saving rate was observed during this period, as growth rate was also rising during this period. At the same time, investment rate has steadily increased, from a low base of 10.7 percent in 1950-51 to an all time high of 39.1 percent in 2007-08. Given that India had a closed capital account before 1991 which restricted capital mobility through administrative controls and outright prohibition, domestic saving and domestic investment in India were highly correlated (correlation coefficient is 0.99 percent for the entire period). It may be observed that the divergence between saving and investment is persistent until the liberalization and was narrowed down after the 1991 balance of payments crisis and further narrowed down after the economy shifted to a flexible exchange rate regime in 1993. The correlation between saving and investment in the post reform period is more or less unchanged from the pre-reform period (correlation in the prereform period is 0.9973 and in post reform period is 0.9972), however the gap between them has narrowed.
As is evident from Chart 1, economic growth was largely led by investment demand, which is captured by the gross domestic fixed capital formation in national accounts. Though growing foreign investment, both direct and portfolio investment play a role, the rise in investment was largely financed domestically. From a low of 21.6 per cent in 1991-92, India’s domestic saving rate jumped to a record high of 37.7 per cent in 2007-08. This fuelled investment, raising the demand for all types of investment related goods. This, in turn, had a multiplier effect on economic growth.
Composition
Domestic saving (Investment) of India is divided into two parts - Public Saving (Investment) and Private Saving (Investment). Private Saving (Investment) is further divided into two parts, those are Household Saving (Investment) and Corporate Saving (Investment).
While India’s saving and investment rates have steadily increased over time, their composition has undergone a considerable change (Chart 2). The most noticeable trend is the growing divergence between the public and private saving. Public saving declined from its peak level of 4.9 per cent of GDP in 1976-77 to – 2.2 per cent in 2001-02, from where it increased to 4.5 per cent in 2007-08. During the same period, saving rates of both the household and private corporate sectors have steadily increased, offsetting the decline in the public sector. The share of household saving in the total saving has increased from nearly 60 per cent in the early 1990s to a maximum of 94 per cent in 2001-02, after which it steadily declined to nearly 65 per cent in 2007-08. The private corporate sector, whose saving rate was stagnant till the late 1980s, has recently emerged as the sector with the fastest rising saving rate (1.8 per cent of GDP in 1987-88 to 8.8 per cent of GDP in 2007-08). The share of private corporate saving in total saving has increased from below 10 per cent in 1980s to more than 23 per cent in recent years.
Similar compositional changes have occurred in investment as well. Until late 1980s public investment rate was dominating and reached its peak of 12 per cent in 1986-87. Following the liberalisation in early 1990s, the role of public sector has gradually reduced in number of sectors, and its place has been taken over by the private sector. Hence, the private corporate investment has steadily increased offsetting the decline in the public sector investment. The share of public sector investment in total investment was stagnant at around 50 per cent till 1980s, and has declined to 23 per cent in 2007-08. On the other hand, the share of private corporate investment, which was little more than 20 per cent in 1980s, has steadily increased to 40 per cent in 2007-08. Household sector investment rate also increased from low base of 3.2 per cent in 1963-64 to 14.2 per cent in 2004-05 and it moderated thereafter. However, its share in total investment broadly remained the same.
To further elaborate the understanding using graphs
To understand the saving, investment led growth or growth driven saving and investment in India, we adopt Johansen methodology as given in figure. The study uses the annual data to examine the causal relationships between domestic saving, investment and income for India. Annual time series data for gross domestic product (GDP), gross domestic saving (GDS), gross domestic investment (GDI), saving and investment of household sector, private corporate sector and public sector for the period 1950-51 to 2007-08 are collected from the National Accounts Statistics, published by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India. All data are in terms of domestic currency and nominal prices.




