Widening trade gap credit negative for India: Moody's

PTI : New Delhi, Mon Feb 18 2013, 13:50 hrs

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Since foreign-currency debt plays a larger role than foreign investment in financing India's trade deficit, the external debt burden has risen to USD 365 billion as of third-quarter 2012 from USD 137 billion in third-quarter of 2006.

"Should the current trend of more rapid growth in debt and import payments than export earnings and non-debt inflows persist, these ratios, and thus India's vulnerability to external shocks, will deteriorate significantly," the rating agency said.

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