The report also said the effort to reduce fiscal deficit through austerity measures is weighing on growth.
"Worries about inflation and fiscal slippage have receded, but concerns about growth and the current account deficit have worsened," the report said, adding the widening CAD has emerged as a key near-term risk.
Accordingly, growth will also come down as, ‘even with the benefit of a favourable base and some improvement in industrial activity, growth is likely to improve only slowly in the coming quarters.
‘We recently lowered our FY13 gross domestic product growth forecast to 5.2 per cent from 5.6 per cent estimated earlier, and the FY14 forecast to 6.2 per cent from 6.6," the report said.
Referring to the expenditure cut impacting the growth prospects of the economy, the report said as expenditure control remains the key for containing fiscal deficit in the absence of rise in revenues, recovery in growth is likely to be slow.
"Expenditure control will continue to be the key to deficit reduction in the near-term, as potential upside to government revenues remains limited.
"Accordingly, while the Budget arithmetic seems broadly credible, the government's expenditure cut is raising the risks to growth," the report said.
The government plans to reduce the fiscal deficit from 5.2 per cent in the current financial year to 4.8
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