Morgan Stanley has also rolling out FY2017 growth forecast expecting GDP growth to accelerate to 7% from 6.5% in FY2016 (unchanged from our earlier forecast).
As per the Morgan Stanley, the non-agricultural growth has picked up as indicated by the acceleration in industrial production and export growth over the last three-four months. Morgan Stanley also observed signs of gradual recovery across all components of growth – consumption, investment and exports.
Morgan Stanley believes that corrective policy action taken up by the government over the last 18 months is helping to gradually reverse factors, which were causing distortion in the productivity dynamic.
Morgan Stanley believes the upside and downside risks to our forecasts will be influenced by two key factors the pace of policy actions to revive the productivity dynamic and the strength of external demand recovery. As per the Morgan Stanley, risks to its growth forecasts are slightly tilted to the upside.