| All that glitters... |
05-NOV-09 |
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The purchase of 200 tonnes of gold by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for $6.7 billion has evoked a rather sentimental response in this country. |
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| Revisiting the orthodoxy |
04-NOV-09 |
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Even before the global financial crisis of 2008 precipitated, there was a widening view among policy analysts that the issue of cross-border capital movements needed to be re-examined. |
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| Lurking dangers |
02-NOV-09 |
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Even before the dust has settled from last week’s status quo monetary policy announcement, analysts are already recommending and predicting tightening actions by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as early as December. |
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| More micro than macro |
28-OCT-09 |
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The monetary policy stance articulated in yesterday’s quarterly announcement broadly lived up to expectations. |
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| Rational, not administered |
23-OCT-09 |
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The benchmark prime lending rates that banks use to offer a signpost to their lending rate structures have lost much of their significance and utility, thus prompting a study by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) of what has been happening and inviting public discussion on proposals for a new system of base rates. |
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| Case for status quo |
20-OCT-09 |
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In his public pronouncements in recent weeks, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Duvvuri Subba Rao has started sounding a note of caution on inflation amidst news of a better-than-expected recovery in the real economy. |
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| Not Bretton Woods II |
09-OCT-09 |
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Compared with the media focus on the G-20 summit that took place a couple of weeks ago, the semi-annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB), which were held in Istanbul this week, seem to have attracted little attention. |
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| Protecting home buyers |
30-SEP-09 |
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The government’s proposal to bring a Bill during the winter session of Parliament to protect the interests of home buyers is to be greatly welcomed. |
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| RBI or Competition Comm? |
22-SEP-09 |
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The Reserve Bank contention that mergers and acquisitions among banks should to left to it, and not the newly functional Competition Commission, is valid and the necessary changes in the law or rules should be made. |
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| A year after Lehman |
16-SEP-09 |
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To many, the collapse of Lehman Brothers was the defining moment in the trajectory of the Great Recession. |
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| Outlook for Pittsburgh |
10-SEP-09 |
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Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has reason to feel satisfied with the outcome of the meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors of the G20 countries, in London last week. |
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| Trial by fire |
08-SEP-09 |
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Duvvuri Subbarao, who completes his first year as Reserve Bank governor today, took office under very adverse circumstances. |
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| Money for the third tier |
18-AUG-09 |
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Most public goods in India are provided by the second and third tiers of government — states and local bodies — but fiscal decentralisation has made slow progress. |
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| As it should be |
29-JUL-09 |
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) maintained the status quo in its quarterly monetary and credit policy announcement yesterday. |
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| Status quo for RBI |
21-JUL-09 |
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One distinct sign of macroeconomic stability is that the frequency of actions by central banks around the world, including the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has declined considerably. |
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