2008 Global Economic Crisis and Its Impact on India s Exports and Imports

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1 MPRA Munich Personal RePEc Archive 2008 Global Economic Crisis Its Impact on India s Exports Imports marimuthu sivakumar Chikkaiah Naicker College, Erode, Tamil Nadu, India 30. August 2012 Online at MPRA Paper No , posted 30. August :19 UTC

2 2008 GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS AND ITS IMPACT ON INDIA S EXPORTS AND IMPORTS By Dr.M.SIVAKUMAR, M.A, M.Phil, Ph.d, Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Erode sivakumarmarimuthu@yahoo.co.in

3 2008 GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS AND ITS IMPACT ON INDIA S EXPORTS AND IMPORTS Dr.M.Sivakumar, Assistant Professor of Economics, CNCollege, Erode-4. Abstract: After introduction of Liberalization, Privatization Globalization by name of economic reforms Indian economy has been integrated global economy. This integration enabled India to move on high growth path but that integration exposed Indian economy to adverse impacts from world economy. India s share in world trade is less than 2 per cent. India s vision in world trade is not only earning foreign ex but also to induce economic growth development. To achieve this vision India is trying to increase its exports. But 2008 global economic crisis has hindered this effort. Since globalization, it is explicit that shocks in world economy may affect Indian economy also. There is a need to assess those effects on our economy is need of hour. Key words: Global Economic Crisis, India, Exports, Imports.

4 2008 GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS AND ITS IMPACT ON INDIA S EXPORTS AND IMPORTS Dr.M.Sivakumar, Assistant Professor of Economics, CNCollege, Erode-4. I.INTRODUCTION After introduction of Liberalization, Privatization Globalization, by name of economic reforms, Indian economy has been integrated global economy. This integration enabled India to move on high growth path but that integration exposed Indian economy to adverse impacts from world economy. India s share in world trade is less than 2 per cent. India s vision in world trade is not only earning foreign ex but also to induce economic growth development. To achieve this vision India is trying to increase its exports. But 2008 global economic crisis has hindered this effort. Hence it is important for India to assess situation overcome problems. II.METHODOLOGY Since globalization, it is explicit that shocks in world economy may affect Indian economy also. There is a need to assess those effects on our economy is need of hour. In light of that purpose this paper aims to assess impact of 2008 global economic crisis on India s exports imports. To assess that effect secondary data of India s exports imports from Reserve Bank of India has been used help of statistical tools such as percentage average an analysis has been carried out. In analysis Septembet-2008 has been considered as crucial month because from that month 2008 world economic crisis has been explicitly felt by world economies. The exports imports data from October to September has been taken into account to assess pre-crisis situation

5 data from October to September has been considered for study to analyze wise post-crisis period situation. III.2008 GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS AND ITS IMPACT ON INDIA S EXPORTS AND IMPORTS The global financial crisis of emerged in Septemer-2008 failure merger of several large United States based financial firms spread insolvency of additional companies, governments in Europe, recession declining stock market prices around globe. But financial crisis really started to show its effects in middle of Around world, stock markets have fallen, large financial institutions have collapsed or been brought out governments in even wealthiest nations have had to come up with rescue packages to bail out ir financial system (Rajiv Kumar Bhatt 2011). The current global economic crisis has originated in sub-prime mortgage crisis in USA in With easy availability of credit at low interest rates, real estate prices in US had been rising rapidly since late-1990s investment in housing had assured financial return (Robert J.Shiller 2008). With economic reforms of 1991, India reintegrated into world economy, with higher trade capital inflows, thus making her more vulnerable to global crisis. A resilient economy India did not go unscad by recent crisis,, although its downside was far better contained than in developed world. The current phase of dramatic GDP growth of above 9% from 2004 to 2007 has basically come from external environment as part of this pattern, India has seen an exped trade flood of capital inflows (Nita Sethi 2011). There is no doubt that India has gained as a consequence of globalization in improving its share of world exports of goods services has improved from 0.53 per cent in 1990 to 1.17 per cent in 2005 (Ruddar Datt KPM Sundaram 2009). India s exports has not been affected to extent as or economies of world during phase of global slowdown, yet

6 exports which had suffered a decline since October-2008 continued of first seven consecutive months in as well. However, declining trend became less steep from 2005 onwards turned positive phase from November, 2009 reversing earlier trend (GoI 2011). IV.ANALYSIS Table No.1 gives India s export data from October-2007 to September-2011 in US $ millions. In October-07 India s export was US $ millions, but in next month it slumped to US $ millions. After that till July-08, India s export was on increasing trend; in July-08 export was US $ millions. India s export was started to decline from July-08, in that month India s export was US $ millions in September-08 that was US $ millions. World economy started to suffer from economic crisis from September-08. That was echoed in India economy also. India s export was continuously on declining path from August-08 to September-09. During December-07 India s export was US $ millions but that was declined to US $ millions in December-08, was Like that, India s export was US $ millions during June-08 where as that was US $ millions in June-09. From October-09 re were signs of recoveries in India s export, in that month India s export was US $14806 millions, a positive 4.78% when month October % increase when month October-07. This trend has been continued in all months of our analysis period except in months April-10, May-10, July-10 August- 10.

7 Sl.NO Exports Table No: 1. India's Exports from October-2007 to September-2011 in US $ millions Exports Exports month of 2007 Exports Oct Oct Oct Oct Nov Nov Nov Nov Dec Dec Dec Dec Jan Jan Jan Jan Feb Feb Feb Feb Mar Mar Mar Mar Apr Apr Apr Apr May-- 08 June May May May June June June July July July July Aug Aug Aug Aug Sep Sep Sep Sep Average Source: Reserve Bank of India

8 Sl.NO Imports Table No: 2. India's Imports from October-2007 to September-2011 in US $ millions Imports Imports 2007 Imports Oct Oct Oct Oct Nov Nov Nov Nov Dec Dec Dec Dec Jan Jan Jan Jan Feb Feb Feb Feb Mar Mar Mar Mar Apr Apr Apr Apr May May May May June June June June July July July July Aug Aug Aug Aug Sep Sep Sep Sep Average Source: Reserve Bank of India

9 The average export from October-07 to September-08 was US $ millions, from October-08 to September-09 was a US $ millions, from October-09 to September-10 was a US $ millions from October-10 to September-11 was a US $ millions. The average growth rate of India s export was in , in in when export average 5.16% in % in when average. This shows that set back for India s export by 2008 global economic crisis has lasted for one only (from October-08 to September- 09). After that one period India has recovered showed a positive growth in exports. Table No.2 gives India s import data from October-07 to September-11. It can be observed from table that even if re were some ups downs, India s import was on increasing phase from October-07 till August-08. India s import was US $ millions in October-07 US $ millions in August-08. From September-08 till September-09 India s import was on negative growth path because of global economic crisis. India s import was minimum in February-09, i.e., US $15062 millions. From October- 09 till September-11 India s import was on increasing phase which shows that within a period of one India overcome from problems of global economic crisis. The average import from October-07 to September-08 US $26356, from October-08 to September-09 US $20566, a shortfall of US $5760 millions growth rate was %. The average import from October- 09 to September-10 was a US $ millions growth rate was from October-10 to September-11 was a US $ millions growth rate was When data, month wise analysis shows that from October-09 onwards re was positive growth in every month. From this it can be understood that 2008 global economic crisis

10 affected India s imports for one only, after that India has recovered from that shock. V.SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS There are many pros cons for India from globalization. India s growth rate is as high as many developed economies even some times higher than those economies because of globalization. On or h, India is facing some shocks from global economic crisis but due to internal factors like household sectors savings she can overcome se economic setbacks global economic crisis affected India s exports imports but those lasted for only one. Now India s external sector has overcome from economic crisis is marching on development path. As rightly pointed out by Rajya Sabha Secretariat Report India has by--large been spared of global financial contagion due to sub-prime turmoil for a variety of reasons. India s growth process has been largely domestic driven.

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