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Interviews | Urjit Patel, former Governor of Reserve Bank of India, interviewed by Puja Mehra (The Hindu)
Urjit Patel, former Governor of Reserve Bank of India, interviewed by  Puja Mehra (The Hindu)

Urjit Patel, former Governor of Reserve Bank of India, interviewed by Puja Mehra (The Hindu)

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published Published on Aug 30, 2020   modified Modified on Aug 31, 2020

-The Hindu

Our macroeconomic problems have created financial sector crisis periodically, says the former Reserve Bank of India Governor.

In his first interaction with a journalist after stepping down from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), former Governor Urjit Patel spoke about his new book, Overdraft: Saving The Indian Saver, with Puja Mehra in a conversation on invitation from the Pune International Centre. Edited Excerpts.

* What made you decide to write this book?

My teacher Professor T.N. Srinivasan used to say that in India our macroeconomic challenges always had microeconomic sources. In the banking sector in India, which I have observed at various distances over the last 30 years, it’s the other way round. Our macroeconomic problems have created financial sector crisis periodically. The current banking challenge is the most intractable one even before COVID. We have a tendency to make a premature pronouncement of victory over any challenge that we desire to solve. We get tired very quickly. Look at our fiscal policy — from very high levels of fiscal deficit we would have a couple of years of very modest declines. So, from a very high level we could go to a slightly lower high level and everyone says, ‘Oh, we have now had too much fiscal consolidation so let’s go back to our usual norm’. Ditto for bad debts. This does not lead to good outcomes; it just accentuates problems by storing them up.

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The Hindu, 30 August, 2020, https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/the-current-banking-challenge-is-the-most-intractable-one-even-before-covid-19-urjit-patel/article32478756.ece


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