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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | US Inflation and India’s Economic Recovery -Prabhat Patnaik

US Inflation and India’s Economic Recovery -Prabhat Patnaik

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published Published on Dec 20, 2021   modified Modified on Dec 23, 2021

-NetworkIdeas.org

The very day, December 11, when the Indian finance ministry spuriously claimed a robust recovery in the post-pandemic Indian economy, newspapers carried news of an acceleration in the US inflation rate. The inflation rate in November 2021 over November of the preceding year had been 6.8 per cent in the US, which was higher than the corresponding rate in any month over the previous 40 years; in particular, petrol prices had increased in November 2021 by 58 per cent, which was the highest for any month since 1980. The Indian finance ministry however blithely ignored this inflation in the US while making its fantastic claims about recovery, even though it must know that this is going to further damage the prospects of India’s economic recovery as long as it remains trapped within a neoliberal regime.

The acceleration of inflation in the United States at a time when its economy still has not recovered from the mass unemployment which had been created during the pandemic may appear strange; during the pandemic, it may be remembered, 21 million people had lost their jobs, and large numbers among them still remain unemployed. Hence the reason for the acceleration in inflation lies not in the US economy suddenly becoming supply-constrained, but rather in a set of specific phenomena, consisting in the emergence of certain immediate supply-side bottlenecks, whose effects are magnified by speculation on one side and cost-push on the other. Overcoming these immediate bottlenecks will take some time, because of which this inflation may persist till the middle of 2022. But its emergence is going to cast a further shadow on India’s economic recovery which is already threatened, as we saw last week (People’s Democracy, December 6-12, Issue No: 50), by the persistently depressed levels of consumption of the Indian people.

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NetworkIdeas.org, 20 December, 2021, https://www.networkideas.org/news-analysis/2021/12/us-inflation-and-indias-economic-recovery/?fbclid=IwAR2c-L7JtPBcJkviEG06zr-pGcYyRPm2mL6gHMDtvGcE5uprNFxp67mzqiM


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