The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) switched back to the gross domestic product (GDP)-based measure to offer its growth estimates from the gross value added (GVA) methodology, citing global best practices.
The GVA methodology gives picture of state of economic activity from producers’ side or supply side whereas the GDP model gives picture from consumers’ side or demand perspective.
Globally, performance of most economies is gauged in terms of GDP model.
The government had started analysing growth estimates using GVA methodology from January 2015 and had also changed the base year to 2018 from January.
Even the Central Statistical Office had started using GDP as the main measure of economic activities since January 15, 2018.