How are they confident that the inflation will reduce by this action??
One has to wait for the effects of the measures to take place. If it does not work, then the govt. will try something else. Then we may have reached a point where the inmates are running the asylum. In high inflation environments, equity markets do not do very well. India has raised the proportion of deposits that banks must hold in reserve.
Already high prices of energy and food are triggering riots in India. Large swaths of population are acutely sensitive to shifts in prices. Changes in the cost of food in particular are the stuff of political dynamite.These assertions and conclusions are sound. Coming from the leader of the weak rupee evangelicals, they strike a dissonant chord. One would tell them not to worry about a rupee decline. How can one wring their hands over commodity price inflation and not worry about the rupee? Tighter monetory policy is in store for the next 18-24 months.
comment:
p_commentcount