Tying up the inflation conundrum

..........The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) officially tries to maintain inflation at around 4% in the medium term, while maintaining growth prospects and allowing the currency to float as per the market and trying to reduce the volatility in currency price. It’s an admirable, if somewhat convoluted, set of macroeconomic stability goals. But the actual performance of India’s inflation seems to fly in the face of what its central bank is trying to do. We have consistently overshot 4%, and not just in the last couple of years. At least since 2005, inflation—

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