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Was India’s growth rate overestimated in the old national accounts series?

Some scholars have put forth that India’s GDP growth rate was overestimated in the old national accounts series with base year 2011-12 – due to methodological issues including the use of the organised sector as proxy for the unorganised sector, and use of wholesale price index as a deflator for certain services. In this post, Goldar refutes these arguments, and concludes that there was likely no significant overestimation. [...]