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S&P underlines India downgrade risk
Is India about to move into the great “beyond” after living many years as one of the Brics?
Analysts at Standard & Poor’s seem to think so. On Monday the rating agency warned again that India was running the risk of losing its investment grade credit rating. It follows a gloomy report published on Friday, titled, “Will India Be The First BRIC Fallen Angel?”
The reasons are myriad and Indians are reminded of them on a seemingly daily basis: slowing growth, limping manufacturing, record deficits of every sort, and a government bent on looking the other way while the economy flails.
In April, S&P downgraded its outlook for India from neutral to negative, warning of the possibility of a credit downgrade within two years. As beyondbrics reported, such a downgrade would not only set India behind its Bric brethren; it could be devastating for the economy as the country would find it harder to borrow money.
On the plus side, the report suggests that “despite recent problems, the Indian economy remains in much better shape to withstand this period of heightened global uncertainty than it was in the early 1990s”. Or, as beyondbrics put it last week: this ain’t 1991.
Still, with this latest warning about India’s deteriorating fiscal position – underling just how crucial government action is – Delhi has again been served notice. It need not go “beyond” the call of duty to keep India from falling out of the Brics; it must simply start to heed that call.
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