In the absence of income or expenditure-based headcount ratio, the growth in the real wages (i.e., nominal wages adjusted against Retail inflation) of the manual workers is considered to be a good proxy to assess the trends in poverty. This is because the manual, unskilled/ semi-skilled labourers exist at the bottom of the pyramid or economic hierarchy, and most of them belong to the social categories Scheduled Castes (SCs) and...
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Retail inflation at 6.01% in January, Hits 7-Month High -Aparna Deb
-News18.com The RBI has been mandated by the government to keep Retail inflation at 4 per cent with a margin of 2 per cent on either side India’s Retail inflation increased to 6.01 per cent in the month of January, driven by higher consumer goods and telecom prices along with a comparatively low rate a year ago, data released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation on Monday indicated. Inflation, as...
More »Climate and food price rise: Extreme weather events triggering unprecedented food inflation -Richard Mahapatra
-Down to Earth Unfavourable, unreliable weather hurt agriculture, in turn pushing food prices our of reach across the world At 14.23 per cent, India’s wholesale inflation rate in November 2021 was the highest in three decades. It did reduce marginally to 13.56 per cent the next month, according to government data released January 14, 2022. But even that is bad news for the Centre ahead of Assembly elections in five states, including...
More »Should the government loosen its purse strings? -Prashanth Perumal
-The Hindu As inflation is driven by supply-side factors, tax policy can be used to cushion its impact With the Union Budget 10 days away, many economic observers are now focused on what support the Centre can offer the economy, which is still struggling to recover from the pandemic. Some analysts believe that the government must keep its spending in check to prevent price rise from getting out of control. Retail inflation...
More »Behind the policy and politics around inflation -Roshan Kishore
-Hindustan Times The Wholesale Price Index (WPI), which acts as a proxy for producer prices, grew 14.23% in November, the highest since April 2012, the earliest period for which WPI data is available under the current series. Retail inflation in India rose 4.91% in November compared with a year ago. The rise was far from unprecedented. And of the 119 months for which data is available under the latest series of Consumer...
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