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Ingo Pitterle, Senior Economist and Officer-in-charge of Global Economic Monitoring Branch, Economic Analysis and Policy Division, UN DESA, said India is “not immune” to current global challenges. Pitterle also stated that the West Asia ‘shock’ for all countries is having a dual impact on growth – it is lowering growth while at the same time pushing up inflation, and in doing so it is constraining the policy space. “This will also be the case for India. So, the question then remains, how will the central bank and also the fiscal authorities respond to that?”