On the eve of Modi government completing two years in office, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan has said that Modi government’s reforms have led to macro stability in the country. He elaborated that while the eyes of the world have been on the Goods and Services Tax (GST) bill, a host of other significant reforms have been taking place in India, leading to macro-economic stability.
Rajan said that the government has embarked on ambitious structural reforms to revive growth, including significant efforts in the agricultural sector to boost productivity through irrigation, insurance, and access to markets, a strong push to deregulate business, especially for startups, important efforts to improve the governance of public sector banks and to resolve distress in power distribution companies, and an immense effort to expand financial services to the excluded through the provision of bank accounts and direct benefit transfers.
The RBI governor stressed that there is no substitute for good policy and said that the government and the RBI had contained inflation through a combination of better food management, a new inflation framework and calibrated monetary policies and, of course, the good luck of lower energy prices.
Rajan speaking at SaarcFinance, a symposium of central bank governors, on 'Impact of Chinese slowdown on Saarc region and policy options', termed a sharp slowdown in China as a “significant risk” for the global economy and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) region in particular. He also said that India’s swap arrangement with a number of Saarc countries had been drawn on by some to alleviate short-term foreign exchange needs, and had hopefully been helpful.
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