December 27, 2019
A rationalisation of the rupee exchange rate
A rationalisation of the rupee exchange rate in end July and August made exports
and domestic products competitive. It is good optics to claim the present is
hamstrung by the past misdeeds of others.1 trillion for bank recapitalisation,
partly by increasing its own borrowings by 0.The current account deficit is
expected to increase from 1.9 per cent of GDP last year to 2. For the six
publicly-owned banks which the RBI has barred from fresh lending, the weighted
average capital adequacy ratio will fall below the minimum required of nine per
cent of loans. It implies that the growth during UPA-1 was not sustainable.5 per
cent of GDP will be needed in the next fiscal year.9 per cent in 2018-19). Rapid
economic growth remains fundamental for equity. For the 11 worst-performing
publicly-owned banks, the GNPAs will worsen from 21 per cent in March 2018 to
22.
So what was the haste all about?The uncharitable view would be that power
abhors a vacuum. The external balance worsened due to the higher cost of oil
imports.3 per cent in 2014-15 to 7.Other than achieving this year’s stretch
fiscal deficit target, the finance minister needs to ponder on the target for
2018-19. He claimed recently that in trying to copy UPA-1 and chase high growth,
both the banks and industry were destabilised through reckless lending and
investment.A rationalisation of the rupee exchange rate in end July and August
made exports and domestic products competitive.Burning his fingers once, while
explicitly chasing growth, should not convert the finance minister into a growth
wallflower.On growth — a sensitive issue for the BJP — Mr Jaitley has thrown a
googly.This is a courageous move, very similar to his taking up Palaniappan
Chidambaram’s implicit challenge in his interim and last budget in 2014-15 — a
fiscal deficit target of 4.
The GST snafu can be ascribed to the lack of expert
skills or a tactical decision to trade off technical rigour against speed of
implementation — a perfectly sensible trade-off in India’s fractious democracy.
This is mere fire-fighting. The "twin balance sheet problem†is likely to take
three to five years to resolve, considering that "legal blustering†is a
time-honoured mechanism for delaying a decision.The Reserve Bank of India’s
Financial Stability Report of June 2018 estimates that Gross Non-Performing
Assets will worsen from 11. But the BJP also scored some self-goals, most
specifically demonetisation and the less than meticulously-planned
implementation of GST.7 per cent. Unless bank lending and corporate governance
become more market-friendly and transparent, investment levels will hover around
the 30 per cent of GDP level — not enough for eight-plus per cent growth.2 per
cent by March 2019.Fiscal stability has improved over Mr Jaitley’s tenure.
Politicians and filmstars — no wonder the two often overlap — are most
vulnerable to the prolonged loss of public face-time.6 per cent in the previous
year.3 per cent of GDP.
The pressures for fiscal expansion come from the urgency
to recapitalise publicly-owned banks; financing infrastructure via public funds
in the absence of any appetite for India risk among foreign developers; the
narrow base of unimpaired domestic infra developers and finally the compulsions
of electoral politics.4 per cent this year, and a 0. Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley (Photo: PTI) Arun Jaitley has returned to take charge as finance
minister well before those who care for him would have really advised. And the
fears of attracting American sanctions by buying oil from Iran have also
receded. The associated structural reforms to make the banks autonomous of
government control; effective oversight of bank lending by the RBI and seeding
economic liberalisation into field-level government regulations — labour laws,
freedom from "inspector rajâ€, land regulation and transparent natural resources
allocation, were all kicked down the road for successive governments — including
the BJP, to manage.The government has allocated Rs 2. What is most likely,
though, is that he returned to his North Block corner office in order to cement
his legacy as finance minister through the last and interim budget for 2019-20
of this government.
Will he play the "Chidambaram card†and fix it at three per
cent of GDP? China
Travel Vacuum Space Bag Factory Mr Chidambaram was pretty sure that he would
not have to live within his interim budget. Achieving this is crucially
dependent on reduction in subsidies from two per cent of GDP in 2014-15 to 1.6
per cent of GDP increase in tax collection (7.Demonetisation was effective but
cynical politics, which did not pass the "raj dharma†smell test.6 per cent of
GDP this year.. This is a wise move.6 per cent in March 2018 to 12. But reducing
the fiscal deficit by a full percentage point of GDP below what he inherited
would be in line with Mr Jaitley’s flair for challenges. But India’s external
debt is a moderate 20 per cent of GDP, so the debt servicing risks are
manageable.1 per cent of GDP — steeply reduced from 4. The trick is to use the
lens of sustainable equity while laying our economic foundations. The IMF
(August 2018 report) expects GDP growth to pick up over the next two years to 7.
Alternative schemes are being implemented like LIC, a publicly-owned insurance
company, buying up the bankrupt IDBI Bank and infusing an additional `90 billion
into it. Additional borrowing of 0.3 per cent by March 2019. The jury is out on
whether Mr Jaitley could reasonably assume a similar privilege. Growth will
follow.8 per cent of GDP. The IMF estimates that the net inflows of foreign
investment and portfolio capital increased from $28 billion in 2014-15 to $48
billion last year and anticipate $70 billion this year. The ambitious target for
the current year is 3.Mr Jaitley manfully accepted this unreal target and
achieved it, noting in his budget speech: "One fails only when one stops
tryingâ€. The RBI has kept domestic base interest rates competitive in tandem
with trends in "safe havensâ€.Mr Jaitley’s is a nuanced claim.It is unlikely that
the growth record of UPA-1 (FY 2004-09) at an annual average of eight per cent
would be achievable till after 2022
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