Financial inclusion as a policy measure is important because it not only helps the underprivileged with access to and use of financial services but also paves the way for economic growth and helps in increasing efficiency and maintaining stability in an economy. This paper discusses the...

Food inflation in India has remained stubborn in recent years. A number of proximate factors such as increasing demand particularly arising from higher rural wages, rising agricultural cost of production, changing consumption pattern favoring protein items, increases in minimum support prices...