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SME Times News Bureau | 17 Feb, 2020
Global credit rating agency Moody's Investor Services on Monday said the Indian economic revival will likely to be shallow.
In
its report, 'Coronavirus clouds growth outlook just as the economy
showed signs of stabilization', Moody's said the economic revival of
India is likely to be shallow.
"India's economy has decelerated
rapidly over the last two years. Real GDP (gross domestic product) grew
at a meagre 4.5 per cent in Q3 2019," Moody's said.
Improvements
in the latest high frequency indicators such as PMI (Purchasing
Managers' Index) data suggest that the economy may have stabilized,
Moody's said.
While the Indian economy may begin to recover in the current quarter, it will be slower than previously expected, Moody's said.
"Accordingly,
we have revised our growth forecasts to 5.4 per cent for 2020 and 5.8
per cent for 2021, down from our previous projections of 6.6 per cent
and 6.7 per cent, respectively," Moody's said.
Pointing out that
the revival of domestic demand - rural and urban, is key for economic
momentum, the credit rating agency also said the resumption of credit
growth is also important.
"As data from the Reserve Bank of India
(RBI) shows, credit impulse in the economy has deteriorated throughout
the last year as a result of the drying up of lending from non-bank
financial institutions as well as from banks, Moody's said.
The rating agency also said Indian banks were not willing to lend and lower their lending rates despite rate cuts by the RBI.
"As
a result, non-food bank credit growth decelerated to 7.0 per cent in
nominal terms in December 2019, down sharply from 12.8 per cent a year
earlier.
"The deterioration in credit growth to the commercial
sector is particularly stark. Nominal credit to industry grew at only
1.6 per cent year-on-year in December 2019, while credit to the services
sector registered 6.2 per cent nominal growth, and credit to
agriculture and related activities grew 5.3 per cent," Moody's said.
On
the impact of the deadly coronavirus spread from China, Moody's said it
is still too early to make a final assessment of the impact on China
and the global economy.
"We have revised our global GDP growth
forecast down, and we now expect G-20 economies to collectively grow at
2.4 per cent in 2020, a softer rate than last year, followed by a pickup
to 2.8 per cent in 2021," the rating agency said.
According to Moody's assumptions, the virus outbreak will cause disruption in Q1 economic activity.
"Under
our baseline forecast, the spread of the coronavirus will be contained
by the end of Q1, allowing for resumption of normal economic activity in
Q2.
"At present, China's economy is by far the worst affected.
However, the rest of the world also has exposure as a result of a hit to
global tourism in the first half of this year and short-term
disruptions to supply chains," Moody's said.
Moody's also said
the effects on the global economy could compound if the rate of
infection does not abate and the death toll continues to rise, because
supply chain disruptions in manufacturing would become more acute the
longer it takes to restore normalcy.
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