Economic Review 1989-90 (West Bengal)

Abstract

This Economic Review analyses primarily the performance of the different sectors of the State’s economy in 1988-89. Moreover, depending on the availability of data the performance of the different sectors of the economy in 1989-90 is also carried out. The State Domestic Product (at constant 1980-81 prices), according to a quick estimate, registered a significant growth rate of 7.5 per cent in 1988-89. This was even higher than the impressive growth rate of 6 per cent (provisional) achieved in 1987-88. And what is more important is that the per capita income in the State, at constant 1980-81 prices, increased by 5.6 percent.