New consumer basket, expanded markets & digital datasets aim to make inflation estimates more representative, says MoSPI ...

India is updating the base years for GDP and CPI inflation. Here's why the reset matters, what will change in growth and ...

The thing to remember is that the source of the past several years' inflation is the enormous growth in the M2 money supply. With little or no excess money in the economy, there is no reason for ...

This year, we also have two critical data announcements—a complete overhaul of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and gross ...

As part of these measures, the base year for GDP estimates has been revised to 2022-23 to reflect new economic structures, and the CPI base year has been revised to 2024, updating the consumption ...

The new series of Consumer Price Index (CPI), used for measuring retail inflation, is going live from February 2026. The ...

MoSPI's new GDP series will adopt double deflation and include updated data sources for enhanced economic analysis.

The trade deal provides a boost to growth. Also, CPI and GDP are set to undergo base revisions, making forecasts tricky. Therefore, MPC may pause on rates while RBI continues to support liquidity ...

The government proposes to include online sources as well as e-commerce platforms to compute retail inflation in a bid to substantially improve reliability, accuracy, and overall quality of the ...

The Survey emphasises this changed strategy and asserts that up to 2030-31, that is, the last year of the recommendation of ...