Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Towards inflation targeting

The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI's) in-house rule for setting interest rates is a secret sauce in desperate need of a new recipe. The ingredients for the rate-setting formula are not known. But a Breakingviews examination of India's call-money rates, inflation and gross domestic product (GDP) over the past 13 years shows that the central bank has historically placed a rather low emphasis on taming inflation, while fretting more about output slumps and currency swings.............

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