Current context: Asian Development Bank (ADB) has lowered the inflation forecast for India to 4.1% in FY 2020
a. Currency’s Value of a country
b. country’s GDP
c. Oil prices
d. All of the above
- The forecast has shown low figure due to gain in rupee and cut in the country’s GDP projection
- ADB has supplemented Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2019 which said that India will be the main driver to lower the inflation for the south Asian region
- The inflation forecast for South Asia for 2019 was lowered from 4.7% to 4.5%, mainly due to lowered forecast for India
- India’s GDP forecast has also been lowered by ADO in 2019-20
- RBI has raised the retail inflation forecast marginally to 3-3.1% for the 1st half of fiscal in its last monetary policy review in June
- But the retail inflation for the 2nd half of 2019-20 has been cut to 3.4-3.7% rather than RBI’s previous projection of 3.5-3.8%
- RBI will review the monetary policy in August 2019
Question:
Q.1 Out of the given options, which Indicator/Indicators are considered for Inflation forecast by ADB?a. Currency’s Value of a country
b. country’s GDP
c. Oil prices
d. All of the above
