OPINION
MONETARY POLICY:
More measures needed
It has been a roller-coaster ride. Inflation which was seen as a major issue in the previous policy of July 2008 mainly on cost-push and demand-push factors is no more a bother, thanks to more than 50 per cent reversal in domestic and ...
MONETARY POLICY:
Rate rises to rate cuts
While markets were expecting interest rates to be changed at the quarterly policy meeting, the lack of action should be seen in the context of the frenetic activity of recent ...
MONETARY POLICY:
Price stability still in focus
After a slew of liquidity management measures over the past two weeks, not much was expected from the maiden quarterly review of annual Monetary Policy by the Reserve Bank of India Governor, Dr D. Subbarao. The recent cuts in CRR, ...
MONETARY POLICY:
Appropriate inaction
The month of October saw an extremely swift move by the RBI to address domestic liquidity concerns in an environment where severe stress in the global financial system began to impact Indian markets as well. The RBI actions signalled an ...
MONETARY POLICY:
Injecting liquidity, proactively
As we have been observing the past few weeks, the RBI has been making swift moves to arrest the prevailing global financial crisis from making any deep inroads into our ...
EDITORIAL:
No light
For a Mid-Term Review “set in the context of several complex and compelling policy challenges”, the Reserve Bank of India has no prescriptions to offer. It is true the central bank has been confronting the domestic liquidity ...
MONETARY POLICY:
More liquidity than required
Perhaps for the first time in recent memory, the Mid-Term Review of Monetary Policy of the RBI was a non-event. Major measures had already been announced a few days back by the Finance Ministry taking the sheen off the ...
CREDIT POLICY:
A trigger for bold initiatives
Mid-term review of monetary policy. The RBI has announced its mid-term review of the annual monetary policy for 2008-09. The central bank had already taken pre-emptive action in respect of liquidity and signalling interest rates well before the ...
LETTERS:
‘Hungry India’
The editorial “Hungry India”, aptly pointed out that the hunger and malnutrition of more than 200 million people in India today are a reflection of the failure of successive governments, both at the Centre and in various States ...
LETTERS:
Fallout from the financial crisis
It is really sad that now all the renowned international banks want everything guaranteed by governments — their lendings, their borrowings by way of deposits from the public, inter-bank borrowings and pretty much ...
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