{"id":230970,"date":"2026-01-13T14:12:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/230970\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T14:12:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:12:03","slug":"india-forecasts-stronger-economic-growth-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/230970\/","title":{"rendered":"India forecasts stronger economic growth than expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India projected its economy would expand more than previously expected, maintaining its status as the world\u2019s fastest-growing major nation. <\/p>\n<p>The figures suggest the country is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/01\/07\/india-economy-growth-outlook-fiscal-2026-tariffs-inflation.html\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">weathering trade tensions with the US<\/a>, as well as regional security and political issues. Remarkably, the central bank has cut its inflation forecast, pointing to something of a Goldilocks period in which growth is not accompanied by significant price rises. <\/p>\n<p>Still, experts voiced caution. \u201cIndia has experienced apparent structural accelerations before, only for them to fade when global conditions turned or domestic imbalances resurfaced,\u201d a former central bank chief warned in the Financial Times. \u201cHas India entered a structurally higher growth phase? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/c5a9c1a1-3eb0-47e9-9e78-2df4a85a4920\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">The most defensible answer is \u2014 provisionally<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/c4144ea32b40a81a107f8ecdded0cb60761e2732-1599x1665.jpg\" alt=\" A chart showing India\u2019s GDP growth rate.\" width=\"800\" height=\"833\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"styles_imageEmbed__QsLwb styles_fullContentArea__zXct_\" style=\"color:transparent\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India projected its economy would expand more than previously expected, maintaining its status as the world\u2019s fastest-growing major&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-230970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}