Exclusive: Moody's defends India political risk comment, says had to explain change in assessment
In an August 18 statement affirming its Baa3 rating on India, Moody's had made note of
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In an August 18 statement affirming its Baa3 rating on India, Moody's had made note of
The global ratings agency does not expect India to meet its target of reducing the fiscal deficit to 4.5 percent of GDP by 2025-26, although any slippage is unlikely to be meaningful, Moody's Senior Vice President Christian de Guzman told Moneycontrol in an interview
India's finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, set a fiscal deficit target of 6.8% of GDP for the year ending March 2022, while for the current financial year it is estimated to jump to 9.5% - nearly thrice the government's target of 3.5% set before the pandemic struck.