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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Demonetisation a massive, draconian, monetary shock: Arvind Subramanian

Demonetisation a massive, draconian, monetary shock: Arvind Subramanian

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published Published on Nov 29, 2018   modified Modified on Nov 29, 2018
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The former CEA says he does not think anyone disputes that demonetisation slowed growth.

Demonetisation was a massive, draconian, monetary shock that accelerated economic slide to 6.8% in the seven quarters after it against the 8% recorded prior to the note ban, says former Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian.

Breaking his silence on the November 8, 2016 decision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he says that he does not have a strongly-backed empirical view apart from the fact that the welfare costs, especially on the informal sector, were substantial.

Though Subramanian, who quit the post earlier this year after a four-year tenure, has devoted a chapter in the upcoming book “Of Counsel: The Challenges of the Modi-Jaitley Economy,” he continued to keep a studied silence on whether he was consulted in the decision-making process of demonetisation. The detractors of the government had said that the Prime Minister had not consulted the CEA on the crucial decision.

“Demonetisation was a massive, draconian, monetary shock: In one fell swoop, 86% of the currency in circulation was withdrawn. The real GDP growth was affected by the demonetisation. Growth had been slowing even before, but after demonetisation, the slide accelerated.”

“In the six quarters before demonetisation, growth averaged 8% and in the seven quarters after, it averaged about 6.8% (with a four quarter window, the relevant numbers are 8.1% before and 6.2% after),” Subramanian says in the chapter ‘The Two Puzzles of Demonetisation — Political and Economic.’

The former CEA says he does not think anyone disputes that demonetisation slowed growth. Rather, the debate has been about the size of the effect —whether it was 2% points, or much less. “After all, many other factors affected growth in this period, especially higher real interest rates, GST implementation and oil prices,” he writes

”...But when a shock like demonetisation occurs, that primarily affects the informal sector, relying on formal indicators to measure overall activity will overstate GDP. This hypothesis goes only a small way towards explaining the puzzle since any squeeze in informal sector incomes would depress demand in the formal sector, and this effect should have been sizable.”

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The Hindu, 29 November, 2018, https://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/demonetisation-a-massive-draconian-monetary-shock-arvind-subramanian/article25621183.ece?homepage=true


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