{"id":26032,"date":"2024-08-24T11:10:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T05:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26032"},"modified":"2025-04-07T23:09:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T17:39:21","slug":"green-shoots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/green-shoots\/","title":{"rendered":"What is meant by the term \u2018Green Shoots\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Green Shoots:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Green shoots&#8221; is a term used to <strong>describe signs of economic recovery<\/strong> or positive data <strong>during an economic downturn.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The term &#8220;green shoots&#8221; is a reference to plant growth and recovery, when plants start to show signs of health and life, and, therefore, has been employed as a <strong>metaphor for a recovering economy.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The term was first used by UK chancellor Norman Lamont to refer to economic growth during the economic downturn in the United Kingdom in 1991.<\/li>\n<li>Particularly <strong>after a recession, green shoots are welcome as symbols of<\/strong> the fact that the <strong>economy is slowly treading the path upward.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>While there is <strong>no consensus on what exactly constitutes green shoots<\/strong>, the <strong>improvement in industrial production<\/strong> figures, <strong>rise in car sales<\/strong>, <strong>developments in<\/strong> the <strong>infrastructure<\/strong> sector, including the steadying of prices of cement and steel, have been <strong>seen as green shoots.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What is an economic recession?<\/h3>\n<p>Recession is a slowdown or a massive contraction in economic activities. Such a slowdown in economic activities may last for some quarters thereby completely hampering the growth of an economy. In such a situation, economic indicators such as GDP, corporate profits, employment, etc., fall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/business\/green-shoots-of-recovery-sprout-among-start-ups-amid-funding-woes-investors-eye-on-niche-players\/cid\/2041973\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Green shoots of recovery sprout among start-ups amid funding woes, investors&#8217; eye on niche players<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Green shoots&#8221; is a term used to describe signs of economic recovery or positive data during an economic downturn. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}