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Farm bills have potential to represent significant step forward for agricultural reforms in India: IMF

There is, however, a need to strengthen the social safety net for those who might be adversely affected by the transition to the new system...

View: RBI and the art of managing conflicts amid Das' easy monetary policies for 2021

The phrase 'stretched valuations of financial assets’ is euphemism for 'asset price bubbles’ because no central banker can afford to utter ...

RBI eyes cooling inflation as it defends targeting framework

Consumer price index figures due Tuesday are expected to show a 5 per cent increase in December from a year earlier, returning to the Reser...

India's forex kitty surges by $4.4 billion to an all-time high of $585.324 billion

The surge in the reporting week was mainly on the back of an increase in the value of foreign currency assets (FCA) held by the central ban...

Global economic outlook dims on virus’s surge ahead of vaccines

The International Monetary Fund in October slightly lowered its 2021 growth forecast to 5.2%, warning that despite massive stimulus from ce...

View: Punjab-Haryana’s top 200,000 farmers want to remain among the top 8 per cent of all earners in India

The Punjab farmer has the lowest cost of production, about 75% of average for wheat, and 59% of all-India average for paddy. The yields are...

China's December factory activity slows, recovery on track

While the rest of the world has struggled to overcome the deadly virus, China has bounced back from a rare contraction in the first three m...

Which developing economies will rise after the pandemic?

The pandemic is accelerating the adoption of digital technology, which has a particularly strong effect on immature economies. Digital tech...

Thumbs up for emerging markets' QE experiment but risks loom

Quantitative easing (QE), until recently the preserve of advanced economies such as Japan or the United States, was adopted this year by mo...

US dollar share of global reserves slide in Q3: IMF data

Global reserves are assets of central banks held in different currencies and are used primarily to support their liabilities. Central banks...

Bitcoin is winning the Covid-19 monetary revolution

Among the big-name investors who have turned bullish are Paul Tudor Jones, Stan Druckenmiller and Bill Miller. Even Ray Dalio admitted the ...

Global debt to hit record $277 trln by year end on pandemic spending splurge-IIF

Developed markets' overall debt jumped to 432% of GDP in the third quarter, from a ratio of about 380% at the end of 2019. Emerging market ...

Why emerging markets are wary of a modern monetary fix

Coming amid a sharp increase in public expenditure, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s $2 trillion clean energy plan shows a dis...

China reconsiders global strategy for Yuan

The yuan rallied to the strongest in more than two years earlier this week, aided by dollar weakness and China’s economic recovery from the...

Tech-driven changes in job markets threaten social contract with workers: Experts

In the next five years, machines will displace an estimated 85 million jobs but create around 97 million new jobs across 15 industries and ...

Markets, Rural and International Experts: Meet the three newly appointed MPC members

With a wide variety of expertise, the nomination of new Monetary Policy Committee members has raised hopes of that growth would take a fron...

PM Modi's 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat' important initiative: International Monetary Fund

"The economic package under this self-reliant India initiative, which was announced in the aftermath of the coronavirus shock, has supporte...