Friday, August 2, 2013

Why Chidu’s quasi-sovereign bond issue is a stupid idea

........A case in point is the issue of whether the country should issue a sovereign bond abroad to shore up foreign exchange reserves. In the alternative, given the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) opposition to the idea, the finance minister said, we could consider a quasi-sovereign bond issue (or issues) by state entities such as banks or cash-rich public sector companies. “All options are on the table”.............

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