India far from replacing China as global growth engine: HSBC
HSBC Holdings has stated that India's recent economic gains are unlikely to surpass China as the main growth engine of the world economy in the near future. HSBC expects the gap between the two economies to widen, reaching $17.5 trillion by 2028. The bank highlights the difference in consumption and investment trends between the two countries. Although India is expected to contribute significantly to global demand for commodities, consumption, and capital goods, it will take another 18 years for India's investment spending to catch up to China's. India’s impressive recent economic gains are unlikely to displace China as the world economy’s main growth engine anytime soon, according to HSBC Holdings Plc. “The numbers don’t exactly add up,” economists Frederic Neumann and Justin Feng wrote in a report Friday. India, at the moment, “runs on too few cylinders,” while China is “simply too large to have its importance for the world economy readily eclipsed,” they said. HSBC expec