IMF slashes India’s FY23 GDP growth forecast to 8.2%

TIL Desk/Business/New Delhi/ The International Monetary Fund (IMF), in its latest World Economic Outlook report, has slashed its forecast for India’s FY23 gross domestic product growth to 8.2 per cent from 9 per cent, saying that higher commodity prices will weigh on private consumption and investment.

This was one of the steepest cuts for emerging economies compared to the IMF’s January WEO forecasts. Saying that global economic prospects have worsened significantly due to commodity price volatility and disruption of supply chains caused by the war in Europe, IMF cut its global growth outlook for calendar year 2022 to 3.6 per cent from 4.4 per cent, and said both Russia and Ukraine could experience large GDP contractions.

The multilateral institution cut the calendar year 2022 (or fiscal year 2022-23 in case of India and some other nations) GDP forecast for almost all developed and emerging economies.“Notable downgrades to the 2022 forecast include Japan (0.9 percentage point) and India (0.8 percentage point), reflecting in part weaker domestic demand — as higher oil prices are expected to weigh on private consumption and investment — and a drag from lower net exports,” the IMF said in its latest WEO report.