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Export slump highlights risks to government target

The narrowing in India’s trade deficit in September masks that fact that exports continue to contract sharply. Wide-ranging reform is needed to boost export prospects but, with progress still slow, the government’s ambitions to nearly double export values by FY20/21 are looking increasingly unrealistic.

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