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How the three members in the new MPC plan to track CPI inflation

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Subhomoy Bhattacharjee  |  New Delhi 

None of the three members of the new Monetary Policy Committee are too hot on tracking the Consumer Price Index-based measure of inflation for their analytical perspectives. The members have begun their meetings today to offer their assessment of how the rates should move.

The three-day meeting will be over on Friday. In her analysis of inflation in India, Ashima Goyal has drawn attention to the role of price discovery in the G-Secs market as a determinant. She says this matters when bank credit is thin and there is a high level of borrowing by the government, a phenomena all too ...

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First Published: Wed, October 07 2020. 15:40 IST
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