As employment is an area where uninformed/ misinformed narratives have been endemic, creating a #thread on #jobs to #inform. Again, let us go by the complete #evidence from NSSO's PLFS, which has a very reliable survey methodology 1/9
1. 5th largest eco has never been ranked as low as India is👇
Rating=Probability of Default =f(Ability2Repay + Intent2Repay)
GDP best reflects Ability2Repay=> ratings criteria used by @SPGlobalRatings@MoodysInvSvc@FitchRatings@DBRSMorningstar is conceptually FLAWED. 2/20
2. Rating=Probability of Default =f(Ability2Repay + Intent2Repay)
As forex reserves r used to repay external (i.e. foreign currency) debt & short-term debt is repayable over 1-yr, short-term external debt as % of reserves capture Ability2Repay.
India is CLEAR +ve outlier👇3/20
🧵#9YearsOfPMModi#PhenomenalEconomicChanges
Jefferies, a Global Investment Bank, notes in its periodic report GREED&FEAR that “the dramatic changes wrought by Modi after 10yrs in power have been phenomenal.” 🧵using Jefferies' report 1/22
#9YearsOfPMModi#InflatioTrendsDown
CPI Inflation and Core Inflation are trending down. The expectation is that inflation should run around 5% for the rest of this year which is below the upper band of the RBI’s target, namely 6%. 3/22
🧵employing rigorous analysis to show "Why CMIE's Employment (& other Survey) Data is unreliable" from a working paper of mine (Singh & Subramanian, 2023) that will be released in a few days. Sharing pages from the relevant subsection:
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