A nowcast of 2021-22 GDP growth and forecast for 2022-23 based on a Factor Augmented Time Varying Coefficients Regression Model
Publication date
दिस्, 2021Details
NIPFP Working Paper No. 361Authors
Rudrani Bhattacharya and Sudipto MundleAbstract
In this paper we have used our recently updated Factor Augmented Time Varying Coefficients Regression (FA-TVCR) model (Bhattacharya, Chakravartti and Mundle, 2019; Bhattacharya, Bhandari and Mundle 2021) to nowcast GDP growth for 2021–22 and forecast it for the year 2022-23. Our GDP growth nowcast for 2021-22 is 9.9 per cent, somewhat higher than the RBI projection of 9.5 per cent. The forecast for 2022-23 is 5.2 per cent. Factoring in an inflation rate of 5 per cent, this would translate to a nominal GDP growth rate of 10.2 per cent which is lower than the RBI projection of 12.3-13 percent but slightly higher than the 15th Finance Commission projection of 9.5 percent.