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India’s economy runs up against some big risks
    2018-09-04  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

INDIA’S world-beating economic growth is running up against some big risks: high oil prices, emerging market stress as the era of easy money drawing to a close, and policy paralysis in the run-up to next year’s federal election.

Those factors may push the rupee, Asia’s worst performer this year, even lower, as well as dampen some of the optimism that has propelled the Indian stock market to record highs. They also serve as a reminder to investors that Asia’s third-largest economy, which has overcome the twin shocks of a cash ban and the chaotic introduction of a nationwide consumption tax, is not fully out of the woods yet.

Policy paralysis ahead of elections is also a threat investors will have to factor in. That together with a record low rupee and rising local interest rates could hurt consumption and throttle the recovery. Exports are separately at risk from the global trade war.

“The outlook for the remainder of the year is not as optimistic,” said Priyanka Kishore, head of India and South East Asia Economics at Oxford Economics Ltd. in Singapore. “Reform momentum is likely to slow ahead of the 2019 general election, as the government shifts focus to capturing votes.”

Data Friday showed India’s gross domestic product grew 8.2 percent in the three months ended June from a year ago, the fastest in nine quarters, while beating the 7.6 percent median estimate in a survey. For now, that number cements India’s position as the world’s fastest-growing major economy, putting it ahead of China, where an intensifying trade conflict with the United States is dimming the growth outlook.

While India’s share in world trade is relatively small, it isn’t entirely immune from global spats. Case in point: the oil price gain following American sanctions on Iranian crude. Every US$10 increase pushes up the inflation rate by 30 to 40 basis points and hurts economic growth of the world’s fastest growing oil user by about 15 basis points, according to Nomura Holdings Inc.

Add a weaker currency to this equation, and the problem gets compounded. Every rupee change in the exchange rate against the U.S. dollar impacts India’s crude oil import bill by about 109 billion rupees (US$1.5 billion) on an annualized basis, according to the oil ministry’s Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell.

A few indicators compiled by analysts at Nomura Holdings Inc. already point to some slowing. Economists forecast growth at 7.4 percent, 7.1 percent and 7 percent in the remaining three quarters of the financial year through March 2019, respectively. (SD-Agencies)

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