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Rising rural, urban wages aiding inflation: RBI report

Rising wages in both rural and urban India have contributed to inflation, and managing price levels when wages are rising is key to deriving benefits from higher growth, the Reserve Bank of India has said.  "The pressure on generalised inflation from sustained increase in wage costs has been one important characteristic of the recent high inflation episode. Wage increases for unskilled labourers in rural areas continue to be at a rate...

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Inflations dips marginally to 6.9% in March

-PTI Inflation was mainly driven by higher food prices India's wholesale price index (WPI) rose a faster-than-expected 6.89% in March from a year earlier, mainly driven by higher food prices, government data showed on Monday. The annual reading for January was revised up to 6.89% from 6.55%, the government said in the release. ...

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In whose welfare?-Gaurav Choudhury

One man’s fiscal problem is another man’s lifeline. Trigger happy bureaucrats and economists may love shooting down subsidies because it bloats the fiscal deficit and burdens the government but the simple fact is that in a one billion strong nation, in which nearly one in every three live below the poverty line, one needs an effective and efficient method through which privileged tax payers can support the poor. Last week, finance...

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‘Food inflation can push 3 cr Indians into extreme poverty’

-First Post A ten percent spike in food prices could push 30 millions more people into extreme poverty in India, a report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has said. Ironically,  data released by the Planning Commission on Monday showed that poverty had declined significantly between 2004-2005 and 2009-2010.In absolute terms, there were 35.5 crore poor people in 2009-10 against 40.7 crore five years earlier. As per the data, poverty across the...

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'Increase in production to help in controlling prices'

-The Indian Express   Increasing farm production and removing market imperfections would help in controlling prices of commodities, a report has said. The report on 'State of Indian Agriculture 2011-12', tabled in the Lok Sabha, said that the principal factors behind the higher levels of inflation in the recent period are constraints in production and distribution especially in high value items such as pulses, fruits and vegetables, egg and meat. Increase in prices can...

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