Wednesday, May 30, 2012

The rupee: a reality check

.............Unlike countries such as China, our official policy is not to target any particular exchange rate. The Indian central bank has stuck with this hands-off policy, allowing the market to determine the value of the rupee. One way of looking at the current slide is to consider it an overdue correction after a long period of overvaluation, when the strong capital flows into India sent the rupee soaring. RBI has done well to not target an exchange rate, because recent economic history shows us how difficult it is to defend the value of a currency in a world where capital flows freely across borders...................

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