Can India Be a Global Food Bowl?
India has the ability to become the world's largest food producer, but feeding the globe while ensuring food security to its 1.4 billion people is not going to be an easy task.
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Retail inflation rises back to 7% in August
India’s retail inflation remains above the central bank’s upper tolerance band of 6% for the eighth straight month now.
Rural India reeling under higher inflation than urban
Consumer price inflation has grown at a higher rate in the rural areas compared with the urban areas for seven consecutive months since December last year.
Budget 2022: Wholesale inflation eases in FY21
The decline in WPI inflation was led by food inflation, which fell significantly to 3.15%, from 8.42% in FY20.
Budget 2022: Food turns way pricier
Food prices have grown with steep rise in MSP; an expansionary budget to boost growth will take them even higher.
WPI shoots to 12.54% in Oct owing to food, crude oil, metals and chemicals
Highest increase in wholesale inflation since May; core inflation at an all-time high of 11.9% in October.
Is RBI running behind the inflation curve?
Amid fears over retail inflation, everyone believes that the central bank will continue to wait and watch as a rate hike is out of question for now. The June inflation numbers will be key.
Covid-19 disruptions may push up retail inflation
Amid state-wide lockdowns imposed to tackle the surge in Coronavirus cases, and supply-chain disruptions, concerns of rising inflation remain.
RBI pushes growth, focusses on liquidity management
At its first monetary policy review for 2021, the central bank kept key rates unchanged, while announcing several measures to manage liquidity.
Our objective is to support growth: Shaktikanta Das
RBI’s status quo on interest rates, guidance on inflation and GDP, and thrust on economic growth pushes equity indices to new lifetime highs.
