The paper's objective is to examine whether the Indian Rupee was fairly valued as of end March 2015. First, the movements of the trade weighted real effective exchange rate (REER) of the Rupee are tracked over the last ten years. Next, the underpinnings of the Harrod-Balassa-Samuelson effect,...

This Working Paper examines India's growth and employment generation performance over the last ten years in the context of key indicators such as fiscal and current account balances and inflation and suggests priorities for macroeconomic reforms. An improvement in the central Government's...

Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India Limited, (ECGC) is a company wholly owned by the Government of India. It functions under the administrative control of the Ministry of Commerce and is managed by a Board of Directors representing Government, Banking, Insurance, Trade and Industry...

India has witnessed a tremendous economic growth, as measured by GDP, over the past 10 years. Many experts have pointed out that FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) has been one of the major factors taking India to this growth level. Foreign investment in India has increased continuously since...

Demonetization drive of Nov. 8, 2016 led to nullification of 86% of India's currency that was in circulation. It was aimed at weeding out the black market's cash supply and counterfeit notes that are disrupting the socio-politico-economic landscape of the world's second largest emerging market....

This paper attempts to analyze the extent of financial inclusion achieved by India in comparison to that of the emerging powers and developed countries. In this backdrop this paper examines the level and access to financial services amongst the mass. For the purpose of the paper various measures...

Demonetization is a process of extraction of a particular form of currency from circulation. The current form of money is pulled out from circulation and retired, to be replaced with new notes or coins. The latest demonetization measures taken by the Indian Government on November 8th 2016, in an...

In current economic scenario especially in the automobile sector, the sales of passenger vehicle i.e. commercial vehicle, two wheelers and three wheelers dropped drastically in the month of the August 2019, which shocked the Indian economy in all round. In this paper, undersigned examined the...

In the evident of globalised world economy and changing economic structure, the traditional policies are required to be close examination. This is true particularly in case of developing countries, like India where new economic policies have had been changing visibly since 1990s. Therefore, in...

What are the political consequences of monetary shocks? While theories of retrospective voting suggest that voters should punish incumbents for negative economic shocks within incumbents' control, other works suggest voters' ability and willingness to do so are limited. We examine this issue by...