{"id":211918,"date":"2022-10-27T19:37:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T14:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=211918"},"modified":"2022-10-27T19:37:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T14:07:02","slug":"explained-the-fms-call-for-industrial-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-the-fms-call-for-industrial-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained | The FM\u2019s call for industrial investment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cExplained | The FM\u2019s call for industrial investment\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 27th October 2022<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Finance Minister has recently asked captains of the industry what was holding them back from investing in manufacturing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Why did the Finance Minister say about industrial investment?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Finance Minister said that she could not see any investments happening at the pace she would have liked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the hope of revitalizing private investment, the government had in September 2019 cut the tax rate for domestic companies from 30% to 22% if they stopped availing of any other tax SOP (standard operating procedure).<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Why there is a slow pace in industrial investment?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to experts, capital expenditure by the government is a precursor to private investment, but it would take a sustained trend in public spending, for about half a decade at least, to help kindle enthusiasm in the private sector.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the government\u2019s intent to spend aggressively on infrastructure in its Budget for this fiscal is encouraging. But this cycle should have started a few years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is consumer sentiment?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Private companies invest when they are able to estimate profits, and that comes from demand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy\u2019s (CMIE) consumer sentiment index is still below pre-pandemic levels but is far higher than what was seen 12-18 months ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Other Terms mentioned in the article<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Gross Fixed Capital Formation(GFCF):<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> As per RBI, Gross capital formation refers to the \u2018aggregate of gross additions to fixed assets (that is fixed capital formation) plus change in stocks during the counting period.\u2019Fixed asset refers to the construction, machinery and equipment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Private final consumption expenditure(PFCE): <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is defined as the expenditure incurred by the resident households and non-profit institutions serving households(NPISH) on the final consumption of goods and services whether made within or outside the economic territory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/index-of-industrial-productioniip\/\"><b>Index of Industrial Production(IIP)<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cExplained | The FM\u2019s call for industrial investment\u201d published in The Hindu on 27th October 2022 What is the News? The Finance Minister has recently asked captains of the industry what was holding them back from investing in manufacturing.\u00a0 Why did the Finance Minister say about industrial&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-the-fms-call-for-industrial-investment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained | The FM\u2019s call for industrial investment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-211918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}