Like many people, I am concerned about the impact that a number of likely political outcomes will have on economic performance. While the situation is nowhere near as dire as it was in 1991, the......
'Governments that did not respect the central bank's independence would sooner or later come to rue the day they undermined the institution,' RBI Deputy Governor Viral Acharya warned on Friday.The......
Subir Gokarn probably became the fall guy for resisting calls for interest rate cuts by the government and industry lobby groups, despite uncomfortably high inflation and/or for depreciation of......
In an interview with the Press Trust of India on Sunday, Finance Minister P Chidambaram explained that there was no "antagonism" between his ministry and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Citing a......
The Economic Survey for 2008-09, published last week, raised my hopes that the finance minister would take full advantage of the opportunity offered to him to lay out an ambitious reform roadmap......
Economic growth in reform-shy south Asia is expected to surpass that of the Tiger economies of east Asia this year as export-orientated countries reel from the global economic downturn, a top......