TEN NUMBERS TO

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$1.8 trillion GDP | Will the economy 1 bounce back to grow at 8% or more? If it
does, India should become a $2 trillion-plus economy this year and could even leapfrog
Italy and Russia to become the eighth largest economy in the world
-4.2% 2 growth of industrial output | Can industry clock sustained double-digit
growth to turn Make in India into a reality?
63.04 rupees per 3 dollar | Further weakening will mean more spend on univ fees
for your kids abroad, on foreign vacations. It will make imported goods costly and
impact government finances as oil companies spend more rupees to buy crude
$53.81 per barrel of oil | Holds 4 the key to not just your household budget but
also government finances and interest rates
0% inflation 5 Can't really be sustained but will we see the return of high inflation,
something BJP had promised would disappear in the run-up to the elections?
8.0% repo rate | Will the RBI governor 6 finally bite the bullet and make loans
cheaper, a move that will also result in lowering your earnings from FDs (the repo rate
is the rate of interest at which RBI lends to banks, thereby nudging interest rate
movements)

32 per capita per day 7 poverty line | Will the poverty measure get more realistic
than this level for rural India and 47 for urban areas with higher growth translating into
better incomes even at the lower end of the scale?
27,499 pts for the Sensex | Will the 8 bellwether index break the 30,000 mark
before

the

Budget

as

some

are

predicting?

After all, it gained almost 30% in 2014, the best in five years
4.1% of GDP fiscal 9 deficit | Will this target be achieved and will that give the
government room to raise spending on physical and social infrastructure?
10 exemption 2.5 lakh, the IT limit | Will finance minister Arun Jaitley find the
resources to be able to raise it to Rs 5 lakh in February?