Budget 2023-24: With all eyes on growth, it's over to FM Sitharaman

Even as India is a relatively bright spot in the global economy, most of its big trading partners in the West, and China are bracing for a deep slowdown and, in some cases, a recession

Arup Roychoudhury & Shrimi Choudhary | New Delhi
Last Updated at January 29, 2023 23:24 IST

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman (Photo: Bloomberg)

A domestic economic slowdown, two years of Covid-19 pandemic, and a war in Europe that upended the global supply chain tested the past four Union Budgets that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented. Her fifth Budget, set to be presented on Wednesday, would now have to take into account equally challenging headwinds.

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