Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Yes and No, Mr Finance Minister

Differences between the government and the RBI are inevitable as they work on different time frame

.......For a minister who is anxious to see results and is eager to force the pace, it might be annoying to find the RBI march at a different pace. But it is inadvisable to ignore the inexorable logic of why countries the world over have institutionalised the present system of checks and balances; one that gives central banks the liberty of striking a different pace from that of their elected governments, albeit within a common overall framework. Dissent is the essence of a democracy, whether between individuals or between a government and the central bank........

Read - ET

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