Monetary easing has had little impact so far

..... Will a government that relies on outside support for a parliamentary majority be able to take hard decisions to rein in expenditure? What is bothering the RBI is retail inflation, and especially food inflation, which has been in double digits over the past three months. "Concerns about inflation have not receded," says Rao. The RBI appears to have loosened policy to back the government's efforts to control fiscal deficit and move ahead with reforms. "The RBI has done its job even though inflation appears to be fairly high," says Madan Sabnavis, Chief Economist at Credit Analysis and Research Ltd.......

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