International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn has announced his intention to appoint Anoop Singh as Director of the Asia Pacific Department. Singh, an Indian national, who is currently Director of the IMF's Western Hemisphere Department, will succeed David Burton. He holds graduate and post graduate degrees from the Universities of Bombay, Cambridge, and the London School of Economics. Singh has also been special advisor to the governor of the RBI.
On global imbalances, Lagarde noted that IMF is assessing external imbalances and misalignments through its new External Sector Report.
Christine Lagarde recently gave a speech in which she outlined steps needed to avoid future global crisis.
Lagarde said that she had elaborate discussions on the general economic situation.
It says RBI may have to continue raising rates; prescribes floating sovereign bonds, going for NRI forex swaps again.
Raghuram Rajan, a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, takes charge at the RBI as the country faces its worst economic crunch since a balance of payments crisis two decades ago.
Raghuram Rajan becomes the 23rd governor of Reserve Bank of India.
Chief Economic Adviser K V Subramanian on Wednesday said India is expected to hit a growth rate of 6.5-7 per cent in 2022-23 and accelerate further to 8 per cent in the subsequent years on the back of reforms undertaken by the government. He also said the government is expected to meet the fiscal deficit target of 6.8 per cent in the current fiscal despite pressure on revenue collections.
Only 68 MPs voted in favour of the motion, it said, giving the 72-year-old President a comfortable victory.
Gold reserves in the reporting week increased by $707 million to $33.52 billion.
After a secret voting by the 24 members of IMFC last Friday, India, Italy and Canada were the only countries that remained in contention for the position, which was traditionally headed by Europe.
The position has been vacant since July after the previous incumbent British Finance Minister Gordon Brown vacated the post after becoming the Prime Minister. Brown chaired IMFC for a decade.
A rapidly deteriorating balance of payments may warrant that but the political climate is too risky
In a business friendly move, the Reserve Bank of India on Friday said that Real Time Gross Settlement System (RTGS), used for large value transactions, will be made available round-the-clock from December. In December 2019, the National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) system was made available on a 24x7x365 basis. Currently, RTGS is available for customers from 7.00 am to 6.00 pm on all working days of a week, except second and fourth Saturdays of every month.
In the swap auction conducted on April 23, the Reserve Bank had received bids worth $ 18.65 billion against $ 5 billion on offer.
Inflation, which has been at high levels, is also a key challenge for the country, Thomas J Richardson, the IMF's Senior Resident Representative in India and Nepal, said in New Delhi on Wednesday.
International Monetary Fund has said more remains to be done to put the US public finances back on sustainable path.
India's economic growth is likely to shrink by 1.25 per cent to 7.9 per cent this fiscal, mainly on account of tight monetary conditions and continued pressure on inflation, the International Monetary Fund said on Friday. The IMF report also warned that investment would be more affected than consumption on account of the tight monetary conditions and fall in global economy following US sub-prime crisis. Compared to China, India has little fiscal space to keep up the growth.
Reliance Industries raced to 52-week high on better than estimated earnings and announcement of bonus share.
IMF has predicted a slowdown of world economic growth and approves of Fed Reserve's move of cutting its interest rate.
Ahead of the Union Budget for 2023-24, Budget makers have welcomed the global consensus view that India will remain one of the bright spots in calendar year 2023. But there is some alarm over the grim global situation and how that might impact the Centre's projections and assessments for next financial year. The big global headwinds include a deep and sustained recession in the West, including India's biggest trading partners in North America and Europe, continuing volatility in commodity markets, and renewed Covid-19 fears, as lifting of strict curbs by China could potentially lead to a massive spread again.
He called on developed countries to play their part in restoring international monetary cooperation.
The IMF Board of Governors have approved a general allocation of special drawing rights equivalent to $250 billion to provide liquidity to global economic system by supplementing its member countries' foreign exchange reserves.
A day after the Reserve Bank kept key interest rates unchanged, the International Monetary Fund on Wednesday said further interest rate increases are needed in India with monetary conditions still accommodative and credit expanding strongly.
The federal agency announced a cash reward of Rs 10 lakh each for Rinda and Landa and Rs 5 lakh each for Parminder Singh Kaira alias "Pattu", Satnam Singh alias "Satbir Singh" alias "Satta" and Yadvinder Singh alias "Yadda".
Raghuram Rajan says he's not beholden to the Finance Ministry nor does he go around with the fear of being fired.
"The BRICS are open to consider, if necessary, providing support through the IMF or other international financial institutions in order to address the present challenges to global financial stability, depending on individual country circumstances," said a joint communiqu issued by the BRICS finance ministers after their meeting.
The Reserve Bank has entered into an agreement buy up to $10 billion (over Rs 45,000 crore) worth notes from the IMF to help the multilateral agency shore up its resources for assisting countries hit by the global financial meltdown.
The International Monetary Fund has said it broadly supports the series of economic reforms undertaken by India, which is moving in the right direction.
When Pandit was in Japan last week, meeting International Monetary Fund and World Bank officials, Michael E O'Neill, the new chairman of Citigroup since April, was applying the final touches of his masterplan to remove Pandit.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel had assured the Greek leaders her continued support for the country to remain in the euro zone when she last Wednesday made her first visit to Athens in nearly three years.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut down its 2013 forecast for global economic growth to 3.9 per cent from the 4.1 per cent, trimming projections for most advanced and emerging economies.
The International Monetary Fund has lowered India's economic growth forecast by 1 per cent to 5-6 per cent for 2012-13.
He will pitch for American investment in Indian business opportunities.
It would be a difficult task for the Indian economy to reach the $5-trillion mark a year before the International Monetary Fund (IMF) projection of 2026-27. Pankaj Chaudhary, minister of state for finance, said in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday that the government is taking steps to make the country a $5-trillion economy at a date earlier than the IMF's projection. In that context, it would not be difficult to meet the projection in the third quarter of FY27.
The Reserve Bank of India hiked key interest rates by 0.25 per cent each in the last two reviews to tame inflation.
The poll found that among those who voted for the Conservatives at the last election, 62 per cent said that party members had made the wrong choice when the race was shortlisted between Truss and Sunak.
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