High commodity prices risk to India's growth, inflation: FM

15 Oct 2012 Evaluate

Concerned over the global economic crisis, Indian Finance Minister P Chidambaram at the meeting of International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) pointed out that the high commodity prices mainly energy prices causes major risk to the India’s growth and inflation. Even though centre has taken several measures to boost the financial growth, volatile capital flows to emerging economies and elevated global food prices also sharpens the concerns over the emerging economies like India.

He blamed geo-political tensions and huge liquidity injected in financial systems by US, Europe and Japan to stimulate their economies for the surging prices in the global market. He also cautioned that India’s inflation rate has been above the comfort zone of the Reserve Bank and affirmed that the central bank’s key policy rate was kept unchanged at 8% since April so as to check the demand side pressure.

India's current account deficit had peaked during the last few quarters mainly due to large import bills on crude oil and gold. While India’s financial growth had dipped to a nine-year low level of about 6.5% in 2011-12 and in the first quarter of the current fiscal, the GDP expansion stood at 5.5%. The International Monetary Fund (IMF), in its recent report had projected India's economic growth at 4.9% in 2012.

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