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Is Food Inflation in India Driven by Demand or Supply? -Deepanshu Mohan, and others

-TheWire.in While domestic food price inflation is high globally, consumer food price inflation in India has increased from 0.68% to 8.38% between September 2021 and April 2022. Inflation has continued to peak at an all-time high in all economies around the world, with food and energy prices skyrocketing to unprecedented levels. Even industrially developed nations like the US, Canada, and the Eurozone, which experienced decades-long of stable price levels have struggles to...

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A layperson's guide to understanding the global Human Development Report 2021/22

It is hard for the media to ignore the findings of global Human Development Report (HDR) whenever a newer and updated version is released. Every time when the HDR is published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), media persons and commentators tend to compare the performance of their respective countries with that of performance in previous years as also with respect to the relative performance of other nations. One of...

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Hard realities -Renu Kohli

-The Telegraph The economy remains vulnerable to headwinds The shortfall in economic growth in the April-June quarter against rosier predictions of most, including the central bank, came as a surprise.Few anticipated the gap between expected and actual performance would be as much (2.5-3 percentage points). It has prompted a tide of downward revisions for the whole year; these follow a previous round, two months ago, due to inflation, higher interest rates, and...

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India may ban rice exports, pose risk to global supply, says Nomura

-Moneycontrol.com The world's biggest rice exporter could see lower production as sowing has been 6 percent lower than the previous season India, the world’s largest rice exporter, could ban exports amid sub-par sowing this season, Nomura said on August 30. “Will India ban rice exports? We think the risk is non-negligible,” Sonal Varma, Nomura's chief economist for India and Asia (excluding Japan), said in a note. “Following the Russia-Ukraine war, soaring maize prices prompted...

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Cabinet imposes curbs on atta exports -Subhash Narayan and Ravi Dutta Mishra

-Livemint.com To ensure food security of India’s 1.4 billion people, a decision was taken to prohibit export of wheat in May following rising demand for Indian wheat amid the Russia-Ukraine war. But, this caused a jump in export demand for wheat flour The Union cabinet on Thursday approved placing restrictions on wheat flour, or atta, exports to curb rising prices and ensure food security for the poor. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs...

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