Thursday, March 21, 2013

Why inflation needs to come down first

................The RBI explanation is that the relationship between growth and inflation is non-linear: at low levels of inflation and stable inflation expectations, there is a trade-off between growth and inflation — essentially implying that some inflation can be tolerated to stoke the growth engine. But above a certain threshold inflation level, this relationship reverses, the conventional trade-off loses context, and high inflation actually starts eating into growth...........

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