Mumbai, May 19 -- Amid the fallout from the West Asia escalation crisis, which triggers substantial capital outflows and strains the country's external balance sheet, India's macroeconomic landscape is facing external headwinds.

But a massive anticipated dividend payout from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and robust historical foreign exchange buffers are poised to act as crucial shock absorbers, opine economists.

The economists are of the view that India's baseline GDP growth is projected to moderate slightly to around 6.7 per cent for the current financial year (FY27).

Concurrently, the country's Current Account Deficit (CAD) is anticipated to widen significantly to 2.1 per cent of GDP, up from an estimated around 1 per cent in FY26...