India hopes to increase its share in the quotas of multilateral development banks like the International Monetary Fund and Asian Development Bank after major stakeholders in them bring forward the issue of quota review and expanding in accordance with current realities that will give proper representation to the emerging economies.
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.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Hamburg, Germany for the G20 summit and it seems that NaMo is on a spree -- of handshakes that is. From China's Xi Jinping to Canada's Justin Trudeau, the PM has met them all and it appears he's having a really good time.
The anti-terror watchdog has decided to give respite of four months to Pakistan to help her implement remaining recommendations of the task force.
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.
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.
Brazil, Russia, India & China (known collectively as BRIC) on Sunday sought a re-balancing of representation on the executive board and the International Monetary and Financial Committee of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The committee is the policy-making arm of the IMF.
Country's foreign exchange reserves declined sharply by $3.433 billion to $351.920 billion.
This is first time in 25 years that a benchmark equity index in India is trading at a P/E multiple of 40x or higher.
"When you have two relatively large economies growing at 7 and 10 per cent, respectively, India and China, they are contributing quite a lot to global growth," IMF deputy director, Asia and Pacific department, Kalpana Kochhar, said during a teleconference in Washington.
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.
US economy saw massive job losses and falling demand last year.
It might help alleviate the economic crisis by addressing the root cause of the unwillingness to spend, says Robert J Shiller.
In the previous week, reserves had declined by $1.03 billion to $353.33 billion.
Intervening in a Security Council debate on post-conflict peace-building, Indian Ambassador Nirupam Sen roundly criticised Bretton Woods institutions, including the International Monetary Fund, for non-involvement of such nations in the planning for development.
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For the 2009-10 fiscal, Pranab said, he expects the economy to grow by 7.2 per cent.
Gold struck another historic peak of Rs 18,000 per ten gram in the national capital today on sustained buying by stockists for the current marriage season amid a weakening dollar and reports that more central banks might purchase gold from the International Monetary Fund.
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In the previous week, total reserves increased by $950.9 million to $313.536 billion.
International Monetary Fund has warned emerging markets, which have so far weathered the ongoing financial crisis, that they may not be completely insulated, while noting that risks to India's financial sector appeared manageable. The top international organisation has raised the assessment of market risks for the emerging markets including on capital flows. It said that despite generally strong external positions, some concerns have arisen about dollar funding in Asia.
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Asian economies are unlikely to undergo a sustained recovery until mid-2010 and can not rely on China to pull the region out of its current slump, a senior International Monetary Fund official said on Wednesday, casting doubts on a "green shoots" theory that has helped bolster Asian stock markets recently.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) has said the current global economic crisis is turning into a human calamity as it has hit millions of poor people across the world.
Gulf Cooperation Council member countries will see their gross domestic product grow at 5.2 per cent in 2010 on the back of rising oil revenues, the IMF has said.
It will depend on how the Fund chooses to deploy its newfound power, asks Dani Rodrik.
The fund said oil prices are still at double the levels recorded in end-2006, even after the 40 per cent fall in prices from the peak they reached in July this year. Food prices too are still above end-2006 levels. Because of this, fuel importing low-income countries will see their import bill increase by 3.2 per cent of their GDP, while food importing countries will spend additional amount equivalent to 0.8 per cent of GDP on food.
This week's Group of 20 meeting already has a packed agenda: maintaining demand, repairing the global financial system and increasing the International Monetary Fund's resources.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram held informal consultations on Wednesday on possible candidates for the Reserve Bank deputy governor's post.
Kaushik Basu, the C Marks Professor of International Studies, professor of economics, and director of the Center for Analytic Economics at Cornell, has been asked informally if he would consider becoming Chief Economic Advisor (CEA), a post that will fall vacant after Arvind Virmani ends his tenure and leaves to join the International Monetary Fund at the end of the month.
The announcement has been enabled by the IMF's recent announcement of a framework for issuance of notes to the official sector. These notes will allow investments in the IMF to be treated as international reserves. Therefore, RBI will be able to invest a portion of its foreign reserves in the IMF.
IMF has predicted a slowdown of world economic growth and approves of Fed Reserve's move of cutting its interest rate.
'How low GDP would have been, we don't know.' 'It raises serious questions because so many indicators are pointing to such a sharp decline and GDP estimates are still showing 4 per cent growth.'
Until now the Fund has sold 212 metric tonnes of gold but it was limited to central banks.
The global agency said there are "serious deficiencies" on the part of the country in checking terror-financing and it lacks an effective system to deal with it.
In any downturn, the turnaround comes only when investors feel asset prices have bottomed out; when consumer demand has fallen so much that it has nowhere to go but up; and when bankers feel that businesses (or those that remain) are on even keel.
India's GDP may turn positive at 1.3 per cent in the third quarter of 2020-21, having witnessed contraction in the previous two quarters due to the coronavirus pandemic, as the number of cases is falling and public spending has started rising, according to a report. The government will release the GDP numbers for the October-December quarter of the current fiscal on Friday. Projecting that the gross domestic product (GDP) may have returned to the black in the last quarter of the calendar year 2020, DBS Bank in the report said the full-year growth in real terms may be at a negative 6.8 per cent.
Pakistan has appointed Saleem Raza, a former international banker, as central bank governor.
As the duration of the FRBM Act, enacted in 2003, has come to an end, the government would be required to replace it with another law on fiscal consolidation.
The International Monetary Fund has ended its annual meetings without doing anything to enhance its credibility and effectiveness. In the process, as Finance Minister P Chidambaram warned in Washington, it risks becoming irrelevant.
The green signal would pave the way for additional funds to the IMF and reforms related to the country representation at the multilateral lending agency, among others. The IMF would get more funding to tackle the global crisis under an expanded borrowing arrangement. The US has committed to increase its credit line by up to $100 billion.
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