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India’s Financial System: Building the Foundation for Strong and Sustainable Growth

July 6, 2023

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India’s Financial System: Building the Foundation for Strong and Sustainable Growth, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2023) accessed October 5, 2024

Summary

India has experienced a prolonged period of strong economic growth since it embarked on major structural reforms and economic liberalization in 1991, with real GDP growth averaging about 6.6 percent during 1991–2019. Millions have been lifted out of poverty. With a population of 1.4 billion and about 7 percent of the world economic output (in purchasing power parity terms), India is the third largest economy—after the US and China. As such, developments in India have significant global and regional implications, including via spillovers through international trade and global supply chains. At the same time, India’s economic development has not been linear and has been impacted by external and domestic shocks, some directly related to the financial sector. Indeed, India was not spared from external regional and global shocks, such as the Asian financial crisis (1997), the global financial crisis (2008), and more recently, the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic (from 2020) and the war in Ukraine (2022). The economy has also been hit by domestic shocks. The book covers how to strengthen the financial system to support growth and reduce vulnerabilities by discussing the linkages between the financial sector and growth, improvements in bank lending to foster productivity, and measures to further develop India’s corporate bond market. The book reflects on India’s success in leveraging digitalization to foster financial inclusion and highlights how the financial system can help to address climate issues. This book digs deeper into the various facets of India’s financial sector to understand its strengths and opportunities and to elicit policy actions that could help the financial sector better support India’s growth potential.

Subject: Bank credit, Central Banks, Climate finance, Credit, Environment, Financial crises, Financial inclusion, Financial markets, Financial sector policy and analysis, Money, Solvency

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Bank capitalization, Bank credit, Banking, Climate finance, Corporate bond bond market, Corporate bond markets, Credit, Credit growth, Europe, Financial inclusion, Global, Green finance, Growth and financial system, Macro-financial linkages, Monetary policy communication, Private sector bank, PSB dependence, Resolution frameworks, Solvency, South Asia, Volatile capital flows

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    292

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    IFSBFSSGEA

  • ISBN:

    9798400223525

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