New fiscal package is less spectacular than it seems

Prime Minister Modi’s 10% of GDP support package sounds impressive but the details just announced make clear that it has been bulked out for effect. Extra demand-boosting measures are worth less than 4% of GDP. The new support limits the downside risks that earlier fiscal inaction had raised. But it won’t prevent a contraction in the economy this year.

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