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RBI Monetary Policy Committee Announcements – Update (May, 2022)

Recently, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) held an unscheduled meeting and made some important announcements. What are the announcements? The MPC unanimously decided to increase the policy repo...

May 5, 2022

States vs Centre on fuel taxes

The Centre and the states are at loggerheads over taxes and duties on petrol and diesel. What is the argument of the Centre? Centre feels that some states...

May 2, 2022

Retail Inflation and IIP in March

In March, the annual retail inflation of India rose to a 17-month high while there was a contraction in the factory output in February, thus complicating the policy...

April 13, 2022

Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2022

India’s GDP growth has been forecasted by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to 7.5 per cent in 2022-23 from 2021-22’s estimated 8.9 per cent. The report has also...

April 7, 2022

US Fed Rate Hike – Impact on India

In the first hike since 2018, the US Federal Reserve increased the interest rates by 25 basis points. Reasons for US Fed Rate Hike In February, inflation in...

March 17, 2022

Retail Inflation in February 2022

According to the data released by the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MoSPI), India’s retail inflation surged to 6.07% in February. About the surge in inflation Retail...

March 17, 2022

Economic Survey 2021-22- Highlights

The Economic Survey 2021-22 was tabled in Parliament on January 31, 2022 by Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Who prepared the Economic Survey? Economic Survey 2021-22 was prepared by...

February 1, 2022

India’s Retail Inflation in December 2021

The retail inflation in India increased to 5.59% in December 2021. This is the highest in the last five months. The inflation data was released by the Ministry...

January 17, 2022

Wholesale Price Index, WPI of April 2021

The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade recently released Wholesale Price in India for the month of April 2021. The WPI for the month of April...

May 18, 2021

What is Commodity Super Cycle?

The prices of commodities from corn to crude oil to rubber, rhodium, copper, soy bean has been increasing since the beginning of 2021. This is referred to as...

May 12, 2021

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