(FILES) In this photograph taken on August 2, 2016, an Indian customer looks on as he peruses goods in a shop in the old quarters of New Delhi. India's economic growth slowed sharply in the first quarter of the 2016-17 financial year, official data showed August 31, 2016, missing expectations but raising hopes of an interest rate cut. / AFP PHOTO / CHANDAN KHANNACHANDAN KHANNA/AFP/Getty Images