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India is closing 2025 by shedding its macroeconomic volatility, offering MENA allocators a safe haven at a time when emerging markets are grappling with currency volatility and high interest rates. Real GDP growth hit a six-quarter high of 8.2% in 2Q 2025-26 alongside improving jobs data, while inflation decelerated throughout the year to 0.71% in November, according to the Press Information Bureau<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The corridor\u2019s stability has reached a definitive Goldilocks moment: For the UAE and Saudi Arabia<\/a>, this provides the necessary stability to deploy the USD 100 bn in committed corridor capital<\/a>. India is now the world\u2019s fourth-largest economy at USD 4.18 tn \u2014 overtaking Japan \u2014 and could move ahead of Germany within three years, the government says, PTI<\/a> reports. The economy has decoupled from global trade headwinds, backed by a 4.7% unemployment rate \u2014 the lowest since April \u2014 while Gross Value Added rose 8.1%, driven by industry and services.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s more growth to come: Multilateral institutions including the World Bank, IMF, and OECD expect growth above 6% through 2025-26, keeping India at the front of the global growth table.<\/p>\n

What this means for GCC capital<\/p>\n

India\u2019s macroeconomic performance is likely to reinforce shifts in how Gulf sovereign funds and energy exporters assess long-term exposure to India\u2019s fast-growing market, according to PTI. This stability removes the currency risk that has historically deterred massive Gulf sovereign wealth deployment, and resets pricing logic on both capital and hydrocarbons.<\/p>\n

GCC sovereign funds<\/a> (Adia, PIF, QIA, Mubadala, ADQ) are deploying record volumes abroad, and a USD 4.18 tn, 8% growth India is now big enough to take platform-size tickets in renewables, infrastructure, data centers, and logistics \u2014 not just minority tech stakes. On the energy side<\/a>, India\u2019s scale locks in strategic relevance, sourcing over 80% of its needs from abroad, with the GCC still structurally central despite temporary Russian discount swings. These are all signals to Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, and Doha that India is no longer a tactical trade \u2014 it\u2019s a demand anchor and investment destination, warranting longer-dated supply terms, downstream co-ownership and corridor-linked infrastructure over ad-hoc transactions.<\/p>\n

The Reserve Bank of India\u2019s delivery of 125-basis-point rate cuts throughout 2025 also ramps up the pull factor for Gulf capital. This monetary easing lowers hurdles for large-scale industrial projects, allowing the necessary scale for the USD multi-mn deployments planned by the likes of Adia<\/a>, PIF, and Mubadala<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What comes next? With CPI below 1%, the Reserve Bank of India is expected to maintain its \u201csupportive monetary stance\u201d to further cut rates in early 2026, as per Hindu Businessline<\/a>. This could lower the cost of capital for Gulf-backed infrastructure projects in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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