Expressing optimism over India’s growth momentum, Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) -- V Anantha Nageswaran has said that policy autonomy and managing global capital outflows effectively will safeguard India’s growth momentum.
He said ‘With a modest current account deficit, India relies on global capital flows, but India has one of the brightest global economic growth prospects. It is up to us to sustain this momentum and use it to our advantage in carving out policy space for ourselves’.
He noted that the phenomenon of financialization, characterized by a high level of market capitalization relative to GDP, leads to a disproportionate focus on market expectations and trends which can distort macroeconomic outcomes and policy discourse.
He emphasized ‘As India looks ahead to 2047 with optimism and hope, this is what we must avoid because the consequences of such financialization are evident in many advanced economies, including unprecedented levels of public and private debt, economic growth increasingly dependent on continued asset price inflation, and a massive surge in inequality’.