....The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) appeared to be the lone voice warning about the perils of inflation even as it faced tremendous pressure from both the finance ministry and industry lobbies to maintain an accommodative pro-inflationary bias. To its credit, RBI did not entirely give in to such pressures but it remained behind the curve for quite a while. In his last public speech as the RBI governor, D. Subbarao pointed out that the economy would have been better served if the fight against inflation “had started sooner and had been faster and stronger”. Now that the tide of public opinion seems to have turned sharply .....
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