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What's cooking in inflation numbers?-Soumya Kanti Ghosh

-The Business Standard Changing aspirations and strong rural demand could explain why core inflation may not decline fast enough Recently, the Reserve Bank of India governor exuded confidence that the Indian economy will do fairly better in the current fiscal. While it is difficult to envisage a significant turnaround, we believe interpreting the recent inflation uptick may be the key to such optimism. We also think that inflation (both wholesale and retail)...

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India set for bumper winter crops in wake of monsoon rains

-Reuters NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: India looks set for bumper harvests of winter crops such as wheat, chickpeas and rapeseed in the wake of a strong monsoon that has left the soil moist and topped up reservoirs. The crops will follow bountiful summer harvests of rice and soybeans due to the rains, with New Delhi looking to boost agricultural growth to cool double-digit food inflation and revive a slowing economy as manufacturing struggles. With next...

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Index Numbers of Wholesale Price in India (Base: 2004-05=100) Review for the month of September, 2013

-Press Information Bureau The official Wholesale Price Index for ‘All Commodities' (Base: 2004-05 = 100) for the month of September, 2013 rose by 1.2 percent to 179.7 (provisional) from 177.5 (provisional) for the previous month. INFLATION The annual rate of inflation, based on monthly WPI, stood at 6.46% (provisional) for the month of September, 2013 (over September, 2012) as compared to 6.10% (provisional) for the previous month and 8.07% during the corresponding month...

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Making Sense of Persistently High Inflation in India-Sthanu R Nair

-Economic and Political Weekly The rising prices of two product groups - primary articles and fuel - have been responsible for the build-up in headline inflation between December 2009 and August 2013. The most worrisome aspect is the high inflation in a majority of food articles in the last six years or so despite a favourable domestic food supply situation and low global food prices. Based on the analysis of the...

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Ripple effect of rising fuel prices: Get used to high food prices, RBI can do little to counter them -Avinash Celestine

-The Economic Times Like his predecessor, RBI governor Raghuram Rajan too remains worried about inflation. And despite repeated attempts, the RBI has had mixed success in taming prices. Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan has clearly decided to play spoilsport to the markets. By making it clear that he, like his predecessor, remains worried about inflation, he has also effectively signalled that with consumer prices at 9.5%, markets shouldn't expect those...

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