Raghuram Rajan likely to be next CEA, to join by Dec

.....For Rajan, who earlier worked as chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, the CEA’s job will make him a key member of Manmohan Singh’s team of officers to oversee the management of the economy and economic policies. Rajan’s name had figured a few years earlier as one of the candidates to head the Reserve Bank of India. The government had opted for then finance secretary Duvvuri Subbarao, who completes his extended tenure next year.......

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