Delayed Recovery Greatest Risk to Pandemic-Hit Indian Economy: Reuters Poll

Delayed Recovery Greatest Risk to Pandemic-Hit Indian Economy: Reuters Poll
People walk at a crowded market in the old quarters of Delhi, India, on April 6, 2021. Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters
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BENGALURU—India’s economic recovery from pandemic-related shutdowns is at risk of a further delay in the six months that are left of this fiscal year, according to economists in a Reuters poll, who expect elevated inflation to hold or accelerate, not fall.

Price pressures in the world’s second-most populous country have soared thanks to rising fuel prices, but the Reserve Bank of India is not expected to raise interest rates until at least the beginning of next financial year, in April-June 2022.