Indian Economy Questions

The India's commerce and industry ministry has started the exercise to revise base year to 2017-18 for computation of wholesale inflation with a view to present more realistic picture of the price situation

In May last year, the government revised the base year for WPI-based inflation to 2011-12 to give a better indication of changes in prices of commodities.

The new index, with 2017-18, is expected to have new items, which would provide a more realistic picture of price rise and its impact on people.

Most of the additions could be in the manufactured products category. Currently, the index has a total of 697 items, including primary articles, fuel and power and manufactured products.

GDP tends to overstate economic well-being because it takes into account social costs related to the consumption of products with adverse health effects

As per the decision of the GST Council, e-Way Bill system has been rolled out from 1st of April this year (2018).

A credit card's interest rate is the price you pay for borrowing money. For credit cards, the interest rates are typically stated as a yearly rate. This is called the annual percentage rate (APR). On most cards, you can avoid paying interest on purchases if you pay your balance in full each month by the due date.

Your APR is expressed in terms of a year, but credit card companies use it to calculate charges over your monthly statement period.

A large underground economy results in an Overstated GDP. The underground economy is also called as Black market. It refers to illegal economic activity. Transactions in the underground economy are illegal either because the good or service being traded is illegal or because an otherwise licit transaction does not comply with government reporting requirements.

In national income accounting, government purchases by Local, State and Federal governments.