Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Urjit Patel Seen as Frontrunner for RBI Deputy Governor’s Post

..........The government is likely to announce the appointment of Patel as the new Deputy Governor — in charge of monetary policy — ahead of both Gokarn and Kalpana Kochhar, an economist with the IMF, said a person aware of the government’s thinking. The race was largely supposed to have been between Gokarn and Kochhar, according to a story carried in this paper as well as others. Patel has worked in a diverse range of institutions, both in public and private sectors. These include stints with the IMF and as a consultant to the ministry of finance as well as two years at the RBI between 1995 and 1997....... 

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