In India, there is a large divergence between CPI and WPI inflation trends in the past, wide dispersion in inflation … across commodity groups within WPI, and significant volatility in headline WPI inflation under the influence of supply shocks … policy could yield ambiguous results if inflation data used in such analyses have serious limitations. [Staff Studies]. …

workers using micro data from the 2004-05 Employment and Unemployment Survey, NSSO, linked to state-level factors. [IGIDR WP …

record of domestic water supply programmes in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh with the help of official statistics and some … ground truths from micro‐level studies and surveys. The implications of these data are discussed in section four. The last …

understanding of economic theory. This paper tries to bring together the formal analytics that underlie inflation policy. It surveys …Inflation management is one of the hardest tasks an economic policymaker has to undertake. It appears, at first sight …, that one can rely entirely on commonsense to carry out this task. But that will be a cardinal mistake. While inflation …

. [Remarks at Reserve Bank of India at the 8th Statistics Day Conference, Mumbai]. …

The Fisher's equation has become a foundation stone of modern macroeconomic, monetary and financial theories. Here it … is shown that despite the estabilished status of Fisher's equation, it stands on a rather shaky foundations. URL …

Statistics is used in our day to day life. Examples are there to show that statistics is misused in many. This can …