[India] - Q3 GDP numbers: Pent-up home demand dies, reveals information

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Indias family usage revealed small deceleration in the October-December FY23 quarter as a contributor to gross domestic product compared to
the same period last year, suggesting that the post-pandemic pent-up demand may have run its course, which development continues to be
irregular. The contribution of government-driven usage to small GDP likewise reduced year-on-year for the 3rd quarter in a row, while
facilities financial investment continued its strong rebound after the pandemic on the back of the Centres capital investment push. The data
released by the National Statistical Office on Tuesday revealed that personal last consumption expense (PFCE), a proxy for household intake,
represented 63.3 per cent in small GDP for the October-December quarter (Q3) compared to 65.1 per cent in Q3FY22. Federal government final
intake expenditure (GFCE) had a 9 per cent share in small GDP compared to 9.5 per cent for the same period in 2015, while gross fixed
capital formation (a proxy for facilities investment) was 26.8 percent versus 26.6 per cent. Private intake showed the greatest moderation
in growth, slowing to 2.1 per cent year-on-year from 8.8 percent year-on-year in Q3FY22, in spite of robust high-frequency data
This comes in the middle of ongoing negative growth in federal government usage, while overall financial investment grew by 8.3 per cent on
the back of growth in capex spending, stated Rahul Bajoria of Barclays. Sunil Kumar Sinha, primary financial expert with India Ratings,
stated: We have actually been highlighting that the existing usage need is skewed towards goods and services consumed largely by the
households in the upper-income bracket and because it is not broad-based, sustaining the recovery of usage need will be difficulty
In a media briefing following the release of the GDP data, Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran disagreed with the evaluation of
independent economic experts. We should not be looking excessive at quarterly numbers, and they are not seasonally changed
The high-frequency data shows us that consumption stays strong, he stated. The NSO likewise launched the 2nd advance price quotes for GDP
for FY23, which showed that PFCE for the year was anticipated to come in at 60.5 percent of GDP compared to 61.1 percent in FY22
GFCE is expected to contribute 10.5 per cent to small GDP in FY23 versus 11.2 per cent in FY22
Gross set capital development is expected to contribute 29.2 per cent to nominal GDP compared to 28.9 percent in FY22. India Ratings Sinha
stated the road ahead would not be easy so long as PFCE did not recuperate completely and become broad-based. The household sector, which
represents 44-45 per cent of GVA, saw its nominal wage development decrease to 5.7 percent during FY17-21 from 8.2 percent throughout
FY12-16
In truth, genuine wage development became almost flat or even turned negative in some months of FY22 due to high inflation, Sinha
stated. He added that given that much of the growth in intake need was driven by wage hikes in the family sector, boost in its wage growth
was a crucial for a sustainable economic healing. Rajani Sinha, chief economist with CARE Ratings, said: As the external demand conditions
remain weak, it is crucial that domestic demand needs to speed up
Improving rural need and rising rural earnings are the favorable advancements for aggregate need
There is anticipated to be some fizzling out of the suppressed demand seen in the last few quarters