{"id":419904,"date":"2026-01-19T20:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T20:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/419904\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T20:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T20:07:08","slug":"imf-raises-indias-gdp-growth-projection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/419904\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF raises India&#8217;s GDP growth projection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><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>.<\/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":419905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46,3607,15805,176088],"class_list":["post-419904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-gdp","tag-imf","tag-the-international-monetary-fund"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}