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India-South Korea bilateral trade target

January 12, 2022

India and South Korea have set to achieve bilateral trade target of 50 billion USD by 2030. The target was set during the summit held in 2018. Recently, the foreign ministers of the respective countries met to discuss on terms to achieve the target. How will the target be achieved? The target is to be ..

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Economic situation to be the worst since the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis

April 1, 2020

The recently released World Bank report predicted that the economic situation in the near future could be the worst since the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis. 1997 Financial Crisis The 1997 Asian Financial Crisis is also known as the Asian Contagion. It was a sequence of currency devaluations in the region leading to decline in the ..

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IMF’s World Economic Outlook Update hews down India’s growth forecast to 6.1%

July 21, 2012

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its World Economic Outlook Update, chopped down India’s economic growth projection from 6.8 % to 6.1% in 2012. This is the result of slowdown in external demand and deceleration in domestic demand. The slow in domestic demand has been attributed to capacity constraints and monetary tightening by RBI. It ..

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