{"id":5772,"date":"2017-09-23T11:05:48","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T11:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=5772"},"modified":"2017-09-23T11:05:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T11:05:48","slug":"economy-on-track-despite-unsupportive-global-factors-says-arun-jaitley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/economy-on-track-despite-unsupportive-global-factors-says-arun-jaitley\/","title":{"rendered":"Economy on track despite \u2018unsupportive\u2019 global factors, says Arun Jaitley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said that despite \u201cunsupportive\u201d global factors, the government has broadly put the economy on track.<\/p>\n<p>Jaitley has been holding consultations with his Cabinet colleagues and senior government officials to devise plans to lift the sagging growth.<\/p>\n<p>The GDP expansion hit three-year low of 5.7 per cent in the April-June quarter with India losing the fastest-growing economy tag to China for the second straight quarter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere we were facing somewhat globally unsupportive environments. And yet, I will say with a sense of satisfaction that we have broadly put the economy on track,\u201d Jaitley said at an event organised here by Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think in terms of maintaining a steady rate of growth, in terms of systematically moving forward in the reform direction not deviating from the overall path itself, and maintaining a more transparent, a more realistic fiscal prudence better than most periods in event history, we were able to move forward,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Besides falling GDP growth rate, exports are facing strong headwinds and the industrial expansion is the lowest in five years.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said that despite \u201cunsupportive\u201d global factors, the government has broadly put the economy on track. Jaitley has been holding consultations with his Cabinet colleagues and senior government officials to devise plans to lift the sagging growth. The GDP expansion hit three-year low of 5.7 per cent in the [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5774,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772\/revisions\/5774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}