Friday, June 29, 2012

Lowering capital controls can sometimes be a bad idea

.....Indian industry is operating near full capacity, going by capacity utilization and inventory data published by the Reserve Bank of India, but the situation described by the World Bank is closer to what we saw in 2008, when the Reserve Bank of India led by Y.V. Reddy went against the prevailing global consensus and argued for a policy to control capital inflows that threatened to worsen overheated in the Indian economy.......

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