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India's external debt profile deteriorates: RBI

04 Sep 2013 Evaluate

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in its half yearly report on management of foreign exchange reserves, has said that India's external debt profile has deteriorated over a period of time with significant rise in volatile capital and decline in import cover.

The central bank stated that the ratio of volatile capital flows include cumulative portfolio inflows and short-term debt to the reserves increased to 96.1 at end-March 2013 from 83.9 per cent as at end-September 2012. While, the country's foreign exchange reserves at end-March 2013 equaled to the nation's import cover of 7 months, down from 7.2 months at end-September 2012. India’s foreign exchange reserves came down to $292.0 billion at the end-March 2013 from $294.8 billion at end-September 2012, the RBI’s report added.

By adding further, central report said that the other external debt parameter of the country which relates to the portion of short-term debt in the total debt too showed deterioration. The ratio of short-term debt to the foreign exchange reserves, increased to 33.1 per cent at end-March 2013 from 28.7 percent recorded in end- September 2012.

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