India Edition

India’s Economic Growth Defies Estimates as Reforms Accelerate

India grows at a brisk pace and economic reforms are set to accelerate.
Workers assemble a vehicle at a VinFast factory in August. Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg.

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Hello, I am Dan Strumpf, Bloomberg’s senior government reporter in New Delhi, filling in for Menaka. Today, we look at India’s just-released gross domestic product numbers that showed the economy was pretty resilient.

Hot off the press: India’s GDP grew a brisk 8.2% in the September quarter, breezing past economists’ forecasts and shrugging off fears that US President Donald Trump’s 50% tariffs were hobbling the world’s fourth-largest economy.