Onlookers watch as finance minister Pran

Onlookers watch as finance minister Pranab Mukherjee delivers his budget speech in Parliament on the digital broadcast on the facade of the Bombay Stock Exchange in Mumbai on July 6, 2009. India's Finance Minister targeted a return to 9.0 percent economic growth "at the earliest" in a budget speech that suggested the country had seen off the worst of the global financial crisis. India's economy grew by 6.7 percent in the year ended March 31 -- the slowest rate since 2003 and down from nine percent a year earlier, as the effects of the global economic downturn hit home. AFP PHOTO/ Indranil MUKHERJEE (Photo credit should read INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP via Getty Images)