The Budget\, the Survey and the trilemma

The Budget, the Survey and the trilemma

The Economic Survey correctly argues for investment-led growth. The Budget understandably wants to tap a cheap pool of global savings. But can these co-exist?

Sajjid Chinoy 

Sajjid Chinoy

Two big themes emerged from this year’s Economic Survey and Budget — one explicit and the other more implicit. The Survey explicitly batted for re-stoking investment-led growth.

This is foundational. As the contrasting experiences of Latin America and East Asia — as well as India’s own experience in the mid-2000s — have revealed, strong growth can only be sustained when underpinned by private investment. Bursts of consumption-driven growth are unsustainable because they inevitably spawn imbalances, either domestic (higher inflation) or external (wider current ...

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First Published: Sun, July 28 2019. 22:50 IST