“Front-Loading” Monetary Tightening – An Overview

“Front-Loading” Monetary Tightening – An Overview In Economics and Policymaking, there is often an ongoing debate on how central banks should address persistent inflation, the extent to which interest rates should be raised, and how long they need to be maintained at a higher level. Another issue that is often ignored, neglected, or not perceived …

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MPC Keeps Policy Repo Rate Unchanged

MPC Keeps Policy Repo rate unchanged On 8th August 2024, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced its Monetary Policy Statement. This is the 50th meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) since its inception in September 2016. – the first meeting …

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MPC Pauses Interest hikes – Inflation Remain Top Priority

MPC Pauses Interest hikes – Inflation Remain Top Priority On 8th December 2023, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has announced its Monetary Policy Statement. MPC has paused interest rate hikes and kept inflation its priority.  Let us see the MPC stands in detail now Monetary Policy Statement, December, …

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Japan’s Modest Recovery Amidst Interest rate hikes and Inflation

Japan’s Modest Recovery Amidst Interest Rate Hikes and Inflation Japan’s Economy is finally seeing some light of hope as the economy is showing some impressive sign of post pandemic recovery. In this Article we discuss Japan’s economy and monetary policy followed by IMF and OECD’s economic outlook. Economy and Monetary Policy As of the second …

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Fragile Global Recovery Says OECD Economic Outlook

Fragile Global Recovery Says OECD Economic Outlook Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released its Interim Economic Outlook in March 2023. This article highilights the summary of the same chapter wise and ends with conclusion (my perspective). Let’s go into it. It stated that there will be a fragile Global Economic recovery. Global growth …

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MPC announced Monetary Policy Statement

MPC announced Monetary Policy Statement Today (i.e. 07th December 2022), the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has announced its monetary policy statement. MPC has increased the policy rate (repo rate) by 35 basis points with immediate effect. This takes the repo rate to 6.25 per cent. As a result, …

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