Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Are inflation numbers reliable? You be the judge!

....As early as in July 2011, the then Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor, D Subbarao had questioned the reliability and frequent revisions of some of these basic data which are vital for all policy decisions of the central bank and the government. “The RBI’s policy formulation is handicapped by frequent revisions to data. We make policies in real time and if the provisional data that these are based on are inaccurate, the resultant policies can turn out to be sub-optimal choices,” Subbarao had said......

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