Friday, February 22, 2013

Growth versus Inflation

........The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may take pride in claiming, even if in jest, that it has prevented a “big bang collapse” and that in pursuing higher growth and lower inflation, it has reduced the repo rate and cash reserve ratio (CRR) by 0.25 percentage point each in its latest policy statement of 29 January 2013 (RBI Post-Policy Conference Call for the Media). However, it is not surprising that the domestic financial markets have uniformly reacted adversely to the measures on the ground that the RBI policy correction was too meager and that it has come a long time after the economy had slipped into a morass of depressed business conditions..........

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