India has all the requirements to return to a GDP growth rate of 8 per cent in the coming years, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia said, while highlighting that current account deficit is a big problem right now.
"A little over 5 per cent is a slowing down but the whole world is experiencing a slowing of growth. It is a worry because we expect much more but it is not as big a disaster as the media makes it out to be. Growth is important but that growth has to be inclusive and sustainable," Ahluwalia said last evening.
India's leading economic strategist also stressed that the pace of poverty reduction in the country was within the target set by the government.
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The former alumnus of the University of Oxford, who was invited by the Blavatnik School of Government to speak about 'India's Challenges Ahead', was in the UK on his way back from the G-20 Sherpas Meeting in Moscow.
"The state of the world economy is a challenge. The focus of government policy is to re-assure foreign investors that India is wide open for business. India has the human resources in place and an expanding private sector. The only problem is the current account deficit. But the global financial system appears to be stabilising and the most important message is that India is a good bet for foreign investment and that message is getting across," he said.
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