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New issues in Indian macro policy

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For many decades, macro-policy in India was conducted in an environment with five key elements: Agricultural shocks rather than a conventional business cycle; A closed economy; deeply distortionary tax policy coupled with a fiscal crisis; financial markets that lacked speculative price discovery, and a monetary policy which was shaped by deficit financing. The paper argues that India has changed beyond recognition on all these five elements and that these changes have far-reaching consequences for the conduct of macroeconomic policy. India is now a more conventional market economy, and there is a much bigger role for the great themes of macroeconomics - as it is practised elsewhere in the world - in shaping Indian macro policy. [NIPFP-WP]

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  • Ajay Shah, 2008. "New issues in Indian macro policy," Working Papers id:1478, eSocialSciences.
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    1. Ajay Shah & Ila Patnaik, 2010. "Managing Capital Flows: The Case of India," Chapters, in: Masahiro Kawai & Mario B. Lamberte (ed.), Managing Capital Flows, chapter 9, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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