INDIA

摘要

With projected annual growth of 7.5% in 2017-18, India will remain the fastest growing G20 economy. Private consumption will be supported by the hike in public wages and pensions and by higher agricultural production, on the back of a return to normal rain fall. Private investment will revive gradually as excess capacity in some sectors diminishes, infrastructure projects mature, corporates deleverage, banks clean their loan portfolios, and the Goods and Service Tax (GST) is implemented. Despite commendable fiscal consolidation efforts at the central government level, the combined debt of states and central government remains high compared with other emerging economies. Inflation expectations are adjusting down only slowly. Overall mere is little room for accommodative policies, although some monetary impulse is still to come, as recent cuts in policy rates are yet to be reflected fully in lower lending rates. Repairing public banks' balance sheets and improving their governance would support the revival in investment Creating more and better jobs will require policies to improve the ease of doing business further, in particular faster and more predictable land acquisition, and upgrading social and physical infrastructure.