Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Focus on transparency

..........As the new RBI governor, Raghuram Rajan, prepares his first monetary policy review statement, he should keep this confusion in mind. It has always been Dr Rajan's stated belief - and the consensus in the macro-economic profession - that central banks should focus on one instrument to control monetary policy, and that good communication and transparency are crucial to achieving a central bank's ends. The RBI's recent actions have not been satisfactory when judged from that point of view. A plethora of confusing and contradictory instruments have been used, some of which have unknown consequences; and transparency has suffered alongside............

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