{"id":292739,"date":"2026-01-19T20:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T20:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/292739\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T20:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T20:20:07","slug":"imf-raises-indias-gdp-growth-projection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/292739\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF raises India&#8217;s GDP growth projection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/imf-lifts-2026-growth-outlook-amid-ai-and-trade-gains\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The International Monetary Fund<\/a> (IMF) on Monday revised its estimate of India&#8217;s gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the current financial year (April 2025-March 2026) upward to 7.3 percent, from its earlier prediction of 6.6 percent,<a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> News.az<\/a> reports, citing<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> BBC<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The IMF&#8217;s prediction was just marginally lower than the Indian government&#8217;s projection of 7.4 percent for the same period.<\/p>\n<p>In a report, the IMF said its upward revision was a reflection of stronger-than-expected growth in the third quarter (October-December 2025), and &#8220;strong momentum&#8221; in the fourth quarter (January-March 2026).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Growth is projected to moderate to 6.4 percent in 2026 and 2027 as cyclical and temporary factors wane,&#8221; it said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday revised its estimate of India&#8217;s gross domestic product (GDP) growth in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,179,18,9207,19,13484,17,145892],"class_list":{"0":"post-292739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-gdp","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-imf","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-the-international-monetary-fund"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115923623870870418","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}