India: Selected Issues

March 2, 2016

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India: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2016) accessed September 19, 2024

Summary

This paper explores key issues affecting the Indian economy and implications for fiscal, monetary, financial sector, and other structural policies. This paper evaluates the build-up of corporate and banking sector vulnerabilities in India, linked to the past macroeconomic slowdown and supply-side bottlenecks, particularly in the infrastructure sector; the nature, scope, and the effectiveness of macroprudential policies in India; the potential costs and benefits of gold monetization schemes in India; two recent episodes of financial market volatility—the taper tantrum of the summer of 2013 and the China spillover episode of the summer of 2015; effectiveness of India’s capital controls using an arbitrage based approach; the relationship between Indian; and international market prices of cereals.

Subject: Agricultural commodities, Balance of payments, Banking, Capital account, Capital controls, Commodities, Gender, Gold, Women

Keywords: Agricultural commodities, Asset, Bank asset quality, Capital account, Capital controls, China, China shock, China spillover episode, Commodity price outlook, CR, Global, Gold, Introduced gold monetization scheme, ISCR, Labor market, Labor market rigidity, South Asia, Women

Publication Details

Pages:

49
Volume:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2016/076
Stock No:

1INDEA2016002
ISBN:

9781513525815
ISSN:

1934-7685

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