Virus a growing threat to domestic activity

The jump in coronavirus cases in India this week underlines the threat of a wide-scale outbreak in the country. We are now working on the assumption that this takes place and have revised down our forecast for GDP growth in 2020. And with many central banks already loosening policy in response to the virus shock, we think the RBI is likely to soon follow suit as well.

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