While IMF welcomes India's shift towards debt-based fiscal anchor, it recommends improvements to the framework, besides endorsing exchange rate flexibility & other steps.
If many market participants tend to use similar models, correlated risk & herding behaviour can amplify stability risks. Regulatory guardrails are important.
The RBI claims its cloud facility will boost the security & integrity of financial sector data. But why is a central bank competing with private players that are already in the market?
It's not enough to have laws that regulate firms or nodal officers who address grievances. India needs a system that sets right incentives for firms and consumers.
Addressing a webinar on Budget proposals relating to the financial sector Friday, Prime Minister Modi also said that public sector presence in banking and insurance is required.
Arvind Panagariya, Professor, Columbia University & Former Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog was the guest in the latest digital edition of Off the Cuff.
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The crisis at India’s fourth-largest private lender, Yes Bank, is a reflection of the wider set of problems being faced by India’s banking and financial sector.
In the storm around Sinauli, many academics dismissed claims of chariots being found. And the public misinterpreted the chariots as a device planted by the govt to fortify Hindutva.
Naidu’s summit brings in MoUs on same scale as Jagan’s, but CM says his plans built on speed, certainty & investor trust, with escrow accounts, simplified incentives & real-time oversight.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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