Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Policy not backed by conviction but by Compulsion

The article is well written.RBI has reduced the policy rates compromising on its own conviction that inflation is still not under control and there is suppression of inflation.In this policy review what one can read is that at any cost reduction has to be given and accordingly language has been beautifully twisted.It is very clear from the wordings that the need to support growth and revive the confidence of investors can happen only if RBI relaxes the rates although there is absolutely no room for that.The reduction has been effected to please the market and the govt. This has been done cleverly mixing up the macro economic factors and suitably justifying the predetermined policy.The impact can be felt in the days to come Liquidity cannot improve unless the banks raise deposits which can happen only if inflation is brought under control. Growth can happen only if the investment environment is made conducive.Investment can happen only the confidence in the economy is revived by Govt. 

  Dr.T.V.gopalakrishnan

(This is in response to an article Wrong diagnosis and bad prescription in Business Line dated 30/01/13)

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