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  "id": 5299180,
  "title": "India’s GDP Revision Row Deepens, Neelkanth Mishra Calls Critics ‘Ill-Educated & Egregiously Wrong’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/indias-gdp-revision-row-deepens-neelkanth-mishra-calls-critics-ill",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-03T09:25:32.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/indias-gdp-revision-row-deepens-neelkanth-mishra-calls-critics-ill-educated-egregiously-wrong"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Mumbai: Neelkanth Mishra, India’s Executive Director at the World Bank, has strongly rejected criticism of the government’s revised gross domestic product series, calling some claims 'ill-educated and egregiously wrong'. His response was directed mainly at former Finance and Economic Affairs Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg, who questioned whether India’s 7.8 percent real GDP growth in the…",
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        "title": "‘Ill-educated, egregiously wrong’: World Bank ED Mishra on row over GDP data, says growth on the upside",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/ill-educated-egregiously-wrong-world-bank-ed-mishra-on-row-over-gdp",
        "published": "2026-09-03T05:25:49.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "MyJoyOnline Ghana",
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        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/ghanas-borrowing-costs-plunge-as-inflation-eases-sharply-world-bank",
        "published": "2026-09-03T05:37:00.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "The Hindu",
        "title": "‘Ill-educated, egregiously wrong’: World Bank ED Mishra on row over GDP data",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/ill-educated-egregiously-wrong-world-bank-ed-mishra-on-row-over-gdp-5276124",
        "published": "2026-09-03T07:20:17.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Adom Online",
        "title": "Ghana’s borrowing costs plunge as inflation eases sharply – World Bank",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/ghanas-borrowing-costs-plunge-as-inflation-eases-sharply-world-bank-5279596",
        "published": "2026-09-03T07:39:39.000Z"
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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."
}