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Deficit Financing

Deficit refers to the difference between expenditure and receipts. In public finance, it means the government is spending more than what it is earning. Government expenditure and revenue can be split into capital and revenue. Capital expenditure generally includes those ..

RBI cuts SLR, releases Rs 60,000 crore

RBI slashed the Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) by 1 percentage point from 24 % to 23 % which is expected to provide liquidity of around Rs 60, 000 crore. It kept the major indicative policy rates unchanged while it slashed ..

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Producer Price Index (PPI): RBI proposes for PPI to measure inflation

The Governor of RBI, D. Subbarao has mooted for a Producer Price Index (PPI) to measure the average change over time in the sale prices of domestic goods and services. Currently, it uses Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Wholesale Price ..

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Core inflation is a better indicator of price trends: RBI

According to RBI Governor, Core inflation is a better indicator of future price trends because of its less volatility. As per him an analysis of longer series of over three years shows that core inflation has statistically significant predictive power. ..

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India displaying delayed effects of anti-inflation policies: Fitch

According to Global rating agency Fitch, India, China and Korea — three most powerful emerging Asian economies — are exhibiting delayed effects of tight monetary policies introduced in 2010-11 to tackle inflation. According to Fitch: Slow upgrading in financial position ..

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RBI defends its move for status quo, holds high inflation the reason

Under attack for not reducing interest rates, RBI Governor D Subbarao held that inflation at current levels is unacceptable and monetary-tightening is need for the hour in order to ascertain sustainable growth. As per Mr. Subbarao, the policy rate hikes ..

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