........The RBI did not have to wait for two and a half years to realise that repo is not really the solution to inflation. The RBI had targeted repo because the interest rate that the banks charge remains above the inflation rate. The real rate of interest — as the difference between the two is called — has to be positive to ensure that people do not give up their savings habit and debtors are not subsidised by creditors. There was a more relevant reason why the RBI did not cut the repo rate.............
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