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High and persistent inflation has presented serious macroeconomic challenges in India in recent years, increasing the country’s domestic and external vulnerabilities. A number of factors underpin India’s high inflation. This book analyzes various facets of Indian inflation—the causes, consequences, and policies being implemented to manage it. Several chapters are devoted to analyzing and managing food inflation, given its significance in driving overall inflation dynamics in India.

Inflation (Finance) --- Food prices --- India --- Economic conditions --- Food --- Prices --- Agricultural prices --- Food industry and trade --- E-books --- 2000 - 2099 --- Banks and Banking --- Investments: Commodities --- Foreign Exchange --- Inflation --- Macroeconomics --- Price Level --- Deflation --- Agriculture: Aggregate Supply and Demand Analysis --- Agriculture: General --- Aggregate Factor Income Distribution --- Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects --- Investment & securities --- Finance --- Banking --- Currency --- Foreign exchange --- Agricultural commodities --- Consumer price indexes --- Income inequality --- Commodities --- National accounts --- Farm produce --- Income distribution --- Price indexes --- Interest rates

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The current global crisis may change globalization itself, as both developed and developing countries adjust to global imbalances that contributed to the crisis. Will these changes help or hinder economic recovery and growth in South Asia? This is the focus of this paper. The three models of globalization - trade, capital, and economic management - may not be the same in the future. Changes in globalization could change the composition of trade flows, capital flows, and economic management, which in turn, could accelerate or restrain growth. South Asia is somewhat peculiar and different from other regions in how it has globalized, although there is a lot of diversity within the region. Its trade characteristics are different. India's growth has been spearheaded by exports of modern services and less by goods exports. Modern service trade tends to be more resilient compared with goods trade. Globalization of services is still at an early stage. So, as consumers pull back in the United States, service trade is likely to be less impacted compared to goods trade. Trade also contributes to growth through knowledge spillovers, externalities, and learning. The global crisis has not reduced the stock of global knowledge. Changes in capital flows are also not likely to have a big impact on growth in South Asia, as South Asia's investments are largely driven by domestic savings. Its dependence on foreign capital is low. South Asia has attracted capital flows that are less volatile. Remittances, which are more resilient, have been the dominant form of capital inflows, exceeding foreign direct investment and other inflows.This global downturn calls for counter-cyclical economic management. But South Asia has limited room for fiscal stimulus, given high debt-to-gross domestic product ratios. Nevertheless, reduced commodity prices have created some fiscal space that can be used for growth enabling infrastructure and safety nets. As South Asia undergoes structural transformation, the region is well positioned to bounce back with global economic recovery.

Access to Finance --- Agriculture --- Bank lending --- Banks and Banking Reform --- Bilateral Trade --- Competitive advantages --- Consumers --- Debt --- Debt Markets --- Economic growth --- Economic Outlook --- Economic Theory and Research --- Emerging Markets --- Export Growth --- Exports --- Externalities --- GDP --- Gross domestic product --- Growth rate --- Income --- International Economics & Trade --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Productivity --- Safety nets --- Savings --- Telecommunications --- Value added

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South Asia’s Path to Resilient Growth highlights the remarkable development progress in South Asia and how the region can advance in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Steps include a renewed push toward greater trade and financial openness, while responding proactively to the distributional impact and dislocation associated with this structural transformation. Promoting a green and digital recovery remains important. The book explores ways to accelerate the income convergence process in the region, leveraging on the still-large potential demographic dividend in most of the countries. These include greater economic diversification and export sophistication, trade and foreign direct investment liberalization and participation in global value chains amid shifting regional and global conditions, financial development, and investment in human capital.

Macroeconomics --- Banks and Banking --- Exports and Imports --- Labor --- Public Finance --- Environmental Economics --- Money and Monetary Policy --- Foreign Exchange --- Central Banks and Their Policies --- Climate --- Natural Disasters and Their Management --- Global Warming --- Trade: General --- Trade Policy --- International Trade Organizations --- Monetary Policy --- Economics of Gender --- Non-labor Discrimination --- Economic & financial crises & disasters --- Banking --- International economics --- Public finance & taxation --- Labour --- income economics --- Climate change --- Financial crises --- Central banks --- International trade --- Environment --- Health --- Monetary policy --- Currency crises --- Banks and banking, Central --- Climatic changes --- Exports --- Manpower policy --- Saving and investment --- India

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South Asia’s Path to Resilient Growth highlights the remarkable development progress in South Asia and how the region can advance in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Steps include a renewed push toward greater trade and financial openness, while responding proactively to the distributional impact and dislocation associated with this structural transformation. Promoting a green and digital recovery remains important. The book explores ways to accelerate the income convergence process in the region, leveraging on the still-large potential demographic dividend in most of the countries. These include greater economic diversification and export sophistication, trade and foreign direct investment liberalization and participation in global value chains amid shifting regional and global conditions, financial development, and investment in human capital.

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In models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize welfare by replicating the flexible price equilibrium. In this paper, we develop a two-sector two-good closed economy new Keynesian model to study the optimal choice of price index in markets with financial frictions. Financial frictions that limit credit-constrained consumers' access to financial markets make demand insensitive to interest rate fluctuations. The demand of credit-constrained consumers is determined by their real wage, which depends on prices in the flexible price sector. Thus, prices in the flexible price sector influence aggregate demand and, for monetary policy to have its desired effect, the central bank has to stabilize price movements in the flexible price sector. Also, in the presence of financial frictions, stabilizing core inflation is no longer equivalent to stabilizing output fluctuations. Our analysis suggests that in the presence of financial frictions a welfare-maximizing central bank should adopt flexible headline inflation targeting—a target based on headline rather than core inflation, and with some weight on the output gap. We discuss why these results are particularly relevant for emerging markets, where the share of food expenditures in total consumption expenditures is high and a large proportion of consumers are credit-constrained.

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