{
  "id": 5253908,
  "title": "‘Shocked' Neelkanth Mishra hits back at GDP critics",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/shocked-neelkanth-mishra-hits-back-at-gdp-critics",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-03T04:57:46.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Economic Times",
    "slug": "the-economic-times",
    "url": "https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/indicators/i-was-shocked-neelkanth-mishra-hits-back-at-egregiously-wrong-claims-on-indias-gdp-growth/articleshow/133725455.cms"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Neelkanth Mishra, an economist, defended India's latest GDP growth number against claims that it was inflated by the revision of national accounts. Mishra, now an executive director at the World Bank, dismissed such arguments as \"ill-educated and egregiously wrong.\" He pointed to fading fiscal headwinds and improving credit growth as tailwinds bolstering the economy. Mishra suggested that consensus estimates for India's trend growth rate could exceed 7%.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}