The Number Behind the Number
Category: Credit & Macro Research
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India's 7.8 percent Q1 FY2026–27 GDP print survives arithmetic reconstruction. What it rests on is a set of price assumptions that published data cannot verify, leaving a plausible sensitivity range of roughly 6.4 to 7.9 percent.
Read the full Icarus Asia research note at https://icarusasia.com/research/india-gdp-q1-fy27.
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