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The Economy in India: Recessionary Effect Essay

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Recessionary Effect: The economy in Indian subcontinent was booming till mid 2008. Almost all the sectors saw a high growth and market sentiments were positive. Sales of all the goods and services including luxury sectors like travel, real estate and automobile saw good times. After mid 2008, there were crisis in the international market, which also affected India. A business report published by business standard under the title “Half of India's top firms have destroyed shareholder wealth since FY08” quoted that majority of listed companies reported a decline in their market capitalization. For most of these companies borrowings exceeded their market value resulting a wide spread debt trap. Banks had a mounting volume of bad debt and the …show more content…

1. Political: The central government India had been on a patchy surface since its formation in 2004. It was a coalition government and regional parties had their own interest to be protected, in every decision which was taken by the government. India had been experiencing a series of scandals breaking almost daily. Each and every decisions being taken by the government were being slippery and giving rise to many controversies. It lead to indecisive bureaucracy. According to many it was a state of “Policy Paralysis”. Biggest of the scams to hit the steel sector was the mining scam. Iron Ore and Coal mines were being allotted to private parties without following the proper norms. It lead the supreme court of the country to stay the orders of mines allocation. Also no new decisions were being taken in mining sector, till the enquiries of previous decisions were pending. Amtek management shared a cordial relationship with the Government of Karnataka, but the state government could not survive long, to facilitate the promises it made to the business house. 2. Economic: Market had lost confidence in projects with high capital investments and long payback periods. No one in market was willing, either to lend to Greenfield projects in steel sector or to partner in such a risky project. After the 2007-08 economic down-turns, RBI had issued a warning to banks in regards to mounting Non Performing

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