Fiscal deficit to be at 3.4% of GDP this year: Goyal

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..... Fiscal deficit to be at 3.4% of GDP this year: Goyal
Budget
Dated:- 1-2-2019

New Delhi, Feb 1 (PTI) Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said the fiscal deficit will be at 3.4 per cen .....

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..... t of GDP this year. Presenting the Budget for 2019-20 in the Lok Sabha, Goyal also said that current account deficit is likely to be 2.5 per cent of GDP this year. He further said India attracted US .....

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..... D 239 billion in FDI (foreign direct investment) in the last five years. "We have liberalised FDI allowing more investment through automatic route," he said. Stating that the government ha .....

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..... d "undertaken path-breaking structural reforms by introducing GST and other reforms", he said that the NDA government has been able to rein inflation. "If we had not controlled inflati .....

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..... on, our families would have been spending 35-40 per cent more on daily use items," Goyal said.
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