RBI introduced 12 indicators for calculating India’s growth: RBI Working Paper

  • Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has come up with a new method of calculating India’s growth through a Working Paper titled  “Nowcasting Indian GDP growth using a Dynamic Factor Model”  under the RBI Working Paper Series, introduced in March 2011.

Here are the 12 indicators:

  • Index of industrial production (IIP) –consumer goods
  • IIP- core sectors
  • Automobile sales
  • Non-oil non-gold imports
  • Exports
  • Rail freight
  • Air cargo
  • Foreign tourist inflows
  • Government tax receipts
  • Nominal Effective Exchange Rate (NEER)
  • Sensex
  • Bank Credit
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