-The Telegraph/ PTI New Delhi: The Supreme Court today asked the Centre and the RBI to disclose the names of borrowers who had each defaulted on public-sector bank loans of Rs 500 crore and above but the apex bank raised objections. The top court, after going through the defaulters' list submitted by the RBI in a sealed cover on March 29, said 57 people had defaulted on loans worth Rs 85,000 crore...
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India is finally trying to clear the air around its controversial GDP numbers -Madhura Karnik
-Scroll.in / qz.com The government has set up five committees to review data to calculate major indicators such as the GDP, IIP and inflation. More than 19 months after the statistical tumult began over India’s GDP, the Narendra Modi government is finally trying to fix the mess. India’s GDP numbers have been receiving flak since a new calculation was introduced in January 2015. Overnight, India’s GDP growth accelerated from 4.7% to 6.9%. It...
More »Inflation down, RBI rate cut hopes up -Asit Ranjan Mishra
-Livemint.com Retail inflation decelerated sharply to 5.05% in August, while industrial production contracted by 2.4% in July, the lowest in eight months New Delhi: India’s new macroeconomic numbers, the last before the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) meets for its 4 October review of monetary policy, pose a dilemma for its new governor Urjit Patel. Retail inflation decelerated sharply to 5.05% in August, while industrial production contracted by 2.4% in July, the lowest...
More »How Well Does India Understand Inflation? -Deepanshu Mohan
-TheWire.in Policy makers should conduct deeper analysis on the many subtle factors that shape inflation and its effects on the Indian economy. In 1923 when Rudolf von Havenstein, the president of the German Reichsbank (later known as the Deutsche Bundesbank), recklessly initiated a money printing drive in response to the German government’s demand to spend more money, Germany was inevitably embroiled in a bout of hyperinflation and its worst crisis of the...
More »Govt hints at lower hikes in support prices for farmers -Zia Haq
-Hindustan Times The government could move away from large hikes in support prices for farmers, agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh hinted on Wednesday, signalling a key farm policy shift aimed at rationalising subsidies and taming inflation. The minister said some people thought the “only way to shore up farmer income is through minimum support prices”. “Wrong. This alone won’t do unless farmers diversify their activities into livestock, kitchen gardens, fishery etc. That’s our...
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