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Will the G7 plan stabilise global financial markets?

Monday 13 October '08

Last Tuesday, the UK came out with a three-part plan to resolve the global financial crisis.
Let the rupee be

Monday 13 October '08

In trying to reduce rupee volatility, RBI could trigger a financial crisis
An agenda for difficult times

Tuesday 30 September '08

The financial crisis in the United States has created ripple effects all around the world. As a result of deepened...
Hope it will float

Tuesday 9 September '08

The Indian rupee has continued to depreciate over the last few days. It is strange that even though a weak rupee...
The Thursday syndrome

Thursday 21 August '08

Today is weekly inflation data day. Every week, courtesy bad number crunching, we are misled
Pricing the rupee

Monday 28 July '08

The Congress-led government, with the Left off its back, is now expected to undertake economic reforms.
Central bank misrules

Thursday 3 July '08

Those who fix rates must learn from history. RBI clearly has not
What price people?

Friday 13 June '08

Why no one asked when RBI’s anti-inflation policy turned anti-household
In the number soup

Monday 2 June '08

The WPI based inflation rate has crossed 8 per cent. Inflation data in recent weeks has become a source of short-term...
Engineering inflation

Saturday 31 May '08

The last few days have seen a sharp depreciation of the rupee. At a time when there are significant inflationary pressures in the economy, this is one shock the economy could have done without.
China doesn’t show the way

Thursday 15 May '08

With inflation above 7 per cent and industrial production growing at 3 per cent, the Indian economy is in trouble.
The Nineties nightmare

Tuesday 6 May '08

Just as it had in the middle of the last decade, is policy again nudging India into recession?
Let the rupee climb

Monday 21 April '08

When global inflation is high in dollar terms, why keep the rupee cheap?
A capital idea

Tuesday 8 April '08

The focus in Indian policy making should now be on getting the monetary policy framework right, to cope with fluctuations in capital flows
How RBI imported high prices

Friday 4 April '08

Stronger rupee will make imports cheaper and work much better than the quantitative curbs
And Bihar still doesn't get it

Friday 28 March '08

Every quarter, the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy tracks all investment projects presently under implementation.
Engineering of the rupee

Wednesday 12 March '08

The month of February saw the US dollar weaken against world currencies.
No free lunches here

Friday 29 February '08

Congress and Left want a borrow-and-spend budget. This is bad economics and politics
Understatement is not a virtue

Tuesday 26 February '08

The UPA government has been claiming that it has done well on fiscal consolidation.
Home is where the dollar goes

Thursday 14 February '08

Indians living abroad send dollars into India in two ways. One, through NRI deposits...
Bankers without borders

Saturday 9 February '08

RBI has still to wake up to the reality of financial globalisation
How to be ordinary

Tuesday 29 January '08

Today RBI will address the short term problem. Question for long term: How to design monetary policy to stabilise the economy?
And we all fall down?

Tuesday 22 January '08

Several markets, including India’s, have plunged amid fears about the US economy. ILA PATNAIK tracks the current crisis and its implications for India
Cut interest rates now

Thursday 17 January '08

The latest data for industrial production shows a slowdown in growth.
Do capital controls work?

Tuesday 8 January '08

India has witnessed a capital surge in recent months. Even though there was a reversal...
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