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Clarion call to promote home-grown ratings agencies

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Clarion call to promote home-grown ratings agencies
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15 July 2024 11:45 AM IST

World is moving away from domination by a single superpower, a single currency and moving towards a more balanced and complex system that’s emerging and evolving, says CareEdge chief

As India embarks on its journey to become ‘Viksit Bharat’ by 2047, it’s important that we have appropriate credit ratings and call out global agencies for biases and lack of transparency for not objectively assessing India’s strong economic fundamentals, G20 Sherpa and former NITI Aayog CEO, Amitabh Kant, has said.

Addressing the CareEdge Ratings ‘Conversations 2024’ conference in Pune, he said the notion that developing countries offer more risky investments is not solely based on objective financial metrics but is significantly influenced by subjective assessment.

Kant stressed the need for promoting home-grown credit ratings agencies, saying that appropriate sovereign credit ratings are actually a very critical issue that impacts not only India but also the entire emerging economies.

Hailing India’s high growth rate of around 8.2 per cent, he stressed that future growth will come from cutting-edge areas. According to Najib Shah, Chairman, CareEdge, the world is moving away from domination by a single superpower, a single currency and moving towards a more balanced and complex system that’s emerging and evolving.

“Such an environment also has implications for the financial situation. Destructive competition between the US and China has ushered in a new era of competing geopolitics and economies. The role of the credit rating agency will be important here for acting in a transparent, competitive, professional manner,” Shah told the gathering.

Gulshan Malik, Deputy Managing Director, State Bank of India (SBI) said the banking sector in India is adequately capitalised as well as ready to fund the next phase of growth, which is very critical.

India's economic growth credit ratings biases in global agencies home-grown credit ratings sovereign credit ratings emerging economies financial metrics India's high growth rate geopolitical competition banking sector 
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