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India overtaking China – what is all the fuss about?

Among the more headline-grabbing developments in the IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook is that the Fund is now forecasting India’s economy to grow faster than China’s in 2015 and 2016. But putting aside the accuracy of the revised GDP data for India that the IMF is now using, India’s greater scope for rapid “catch-up” growth means it should already be growing much faster than China anyway.

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