Why India gets a 'C' Grade in IMF's data adequacy assessment

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has given a ‘C’ Grade to India’s national accounts and government finance data ...

Is India's growth real? Making sense of IMF’s rating and GDP data issues

While the GDP data issues are not new, what’s new is the rating system by the IMF—started last year—that has brought to ...

The IMF’s critique of India’s economic statistics is not a cause for alarm but a cue to improve data quality

The Fund awarded India a ‘C’ grade in its assessment of our macro data quality. Its criticism of our estimates is best taken ...
International Monetary Fund

GDP Nowcasting Performance of Traditional Econometric Models vs Machine-Learning Algorithms: Simulation and Case Studies

Are Machine Learning (ML) algorithms superior to traditional econometric models for GDP nowcasting in a time series setting?
The Wire

Full Text | 'IMF Concerns Justified; India's GDP Calculation Less Than Reliable': Arun Kumar and Pronab Sen

Arun Kumar said that he believes India’s actual GDP is probably 48% of what the official figure claims it to be.