The country's foreign exchange reserves rose $183 million to touch a record high of $560.715 billion in the week ended October 30, RBI data showed on Friday. In the previous week ended October 23, the reserves had jumped $5.412 billion to $560.532 billion.
Even though inflation in India may not seem too high now, it is imperative that New Delhi deals with it immediately before it spills over into other areas, says a senior International Monetary Fund official.
The International Monetary Fund has said that it expects India's economic growth to accelerate and inch closer to that of China.
FM's top adviser Raghuram Rajan had earlier said that the target was tough to meet.
The country's foreign exchange reserves surged by $5.066 billion to touch a record high of $608.999 billion in the week ended June 25, 2021, RBI data showed. In the previous week ended June 18, the reserves had declined by $4.418 billion to $603.933 billion. During the week under review, the increase in the forex reserves was on account of a rise in foreign currency assets (FCA), a major component of the overall reserves, Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) weekly data showed.
The country's foreign exchange reserves declined by $1.47 billion to $633.61 billion in the week ended December 31, RBI data showed. In the previous week ended December 24, the reserves dipped by $587 million to $635.08 billion. It touched a life-time high of $642.45 billion in the week ended September 3, 2021.
Sliding from a lifetime high, India's forex reserves declined by $4.148 billion to reach $603.933 billion for the week ended June 18 due to a fall in gold and currency assets, RBI data showed on Friday. The forex kitty had surged by $3.074 billion to a record high of $608.081 billion in the previous reporting week. The foreign currency assets (FCA), a major component of the overall reserves, declined by $1.918 billion to $561.540 billion for the reporting week, as per data by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
India's forex reserves decreased by $587 million to $635.08 billion for the week ended December 24, the RBI said on Friday. In the previous week ended December 17, the overall reserves had decreased by $160 million to $635.67 billion. The kitty had touched a lifetime high of $642.45 billion in the week ended September 3, 2021.
While most European countries are backing Lagarde, the developing countries are trying to build a consensus on nominating a person from the emerging nations as the next IMF chief.
The International Monetary Fund has said India should make its financial system more efficient and hasten structural reforms to sustain high economic growth, which averaged about eight per cent in the last three years. \n
The country's foreign exchange reserves declined by $160 million to stand at $635.667 billion in the week to December 17, RBI data showed on Friday. In the previous week ended December 10, the reserves had decreased by $77 million to $635.828 billion. It touched a lifetime high of $642.453 billion in the week ended September 3, 2021.
The scramble for International Monetary Fund managing director's chair has escalated into a war of sorts with developing nations calling for a change in the power equation.
Rajan, who will be a key member of Finance Minister P Chidambaram's team, was also honorary economic adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Reveleus, a business of I-flex solutions, said on Monday the International Monetary Fund has selected its business intelligence and data warehouse technology offering for the design and implementation of a data warehouse.
Gold reserves rose by $321 million in the reporting week to $37.521 billion.
The country's foreign exchange reserves declined by $2.71 billion to $637.69 billion in the week to November 26, RBI data showed. In the previous week ended November 19, the reserves had increased by $289 million to $640.40 billion. It touched a lifetime high of $642.45 billion in the week ended September 3, 2021.
The International Monetary Fund welcomed the commitment made by the G-20 Summit on Thursday to enhance the multilateral agency's ability to support emerging markets and low-income countries, and to bring the world economy out of its deepest post-war recession.
In July, the Pakistan government's debt swelled to USD 2.44 billion, including USD 2.07 billion in non-guaranteed debt owed to China, as per Geo News.
Addressing reporters on the occasion of release of G-20 Surveillance Note in Washington on Thursday, senior IMF officials, however, emphasised that the world body expects advanced countries to turn around and grow at a moderate pace in 2010.
The country's foreign exchange reserves declined by $763 million to $640.11 billion in the week ended November 12, RBI data showed. In the previous week ended November 5, the reserves had decreased by $1.14 billion to $640.87 billion. It touched a lifetime high of $642.45 billion in the week ended September 3, 2021.
India's forex reserves dropped by $691 million to $562.808 billion as of December 23, making it the second consecutive week of decline in the kitty, according to the RBI data. The overall reserves had dropped by $571 million to $563.50 billion in the previous reporting week, snapping a five-week trend of an increase in the kitty. In October 2021, the country's foreign exchange reserves reached an all-time high of $645 billion.
The Greek debt crisis shows clearly that if the eurozone is to come out of this crisis relatively unscathed, it needs a full-time fiscal-monitoring and crisis-resolution mechanism.
The finance ministers of 16 nations that use the euro Sunday night sealed a 110-billion euro bailout package for heavily indebted Greece over three years after the country's government agreed to a new round of tough austerity measures.
Differing with International Monetary Fund's growth forecast of 4.9 per cent for India during 2012, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said it has a statistical problem.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said India and China will account for half of the global economic growth in 2023, as the multilateral agency retained its growth forecast for Asia's third-largest economy for 2023-24 (FY24). "India remains a bright spot. Together with China, it will account for half of global growth this year, versus just a tenth for the US and euro area combined," the IMF said in its latest update to the biannual World Economic Outlook. Growth in India is set to decline from 6.8 per cent in 2022 (FY23) to 6.1 per cent in 2023 (FY24) before picking up to 6.8 per cent in 2024 (FY25), the global lender said while citing "resilient domestic demand despite external headwinds".
India can now, if required, borrow up to $30 billion a year, up from $6 billion, from the International Monetary Fund for a three-month period which can be renewed twice more in 3-month cycles.
After rising for five consecutive weeks, India's forex kitty dropped $571 million to $563.5 billion for the week ended December 16, according to RBI data released on Friday. In the previous reporting week, the overall reserves had swelled $2.91 billion to $564.06 billion, making it the fifth straight week of an increase in the kitty after a protracted decline. In October 2021, the country's foreign exchange kitty had reached an all-time high of $645 billion.
"There are indications that the world could be engulfed in another economic crisis, with serious repercussions for the poor and vulnerable. In such circumstances, we need to be prepared to think out of the box and reflect on what are the important issues the World Bank should be addressing," Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said in Washington.
India last year announced tax cuts and increased expenditure to prop up the economy hit by the global economic slowdown.
India's forex reserves rose by $2.908 billion to $564.06 billion for the week ended on December 9, according to the Reserve Bank data released on Friday. In the previous reporting week, the overall reserves had soared by $11 billion to $561.16 billion. This is the fifth consecutive week of an increase in the reserves.
Gordan Brown has advised IMF to set up an early warning system to alert economies of impending financial disasters.
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Rodrigo de Rato will quit the Fund in October without completing his five-year term which ends in May 2009.
It will take 1/10th of the current expenditure on subsidy to benefit the bottom 40 per cent of the population, according to Laura Papi, Assistant Director, Asia and Pacific Department at the International Monetary Fund.
The country's foreign exchange reserves rose by $2.04 billion to $639.52 billion in the week ended October 8, according to RBI data. In the previous week ended October 1, the reserves had dipped by $1.17 billion to $637.48 billion. The reserves had surged by $8.90 billion to a life time high of $642.45 billion in the week ended September 3.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told the global community that India is willing to increase its contribution to the International Monetary Fund but does not intend to borrow any money from the multilateral lending agency.
IMF cut its 2016 global growth forecast for the fourth time in the past year to 3.2 per cent, citing China's slowdown.
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