The country will get more voice in decision-making at IMF.
For the current fiscal, the fund said the economy would grow by 6.7 per cent, much lower than the 7.2 per cent projected by the Central Statistical Organisation.
IMF's change of heart on capital controls is important, but it needs to be followed by further action.
'Growth would have to be 7% in the October-March period, if the year as a whole is to clock 6%.' 'Who would bet on that when, in the world of real numbers, both exports and imports have continued to fall, car sales have continued to slump, and the industrial production index shows yet again a drop in output?', asks T N Ninan.
It is time to shrug off the ideological shackles about the way we work, play and live, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
India's external debt rose by 16.46 per cent to $261.4 billion at the end of 2009-10 on the back of an improved liquidity in the global financial system along with an additional allocation of special drawing rights of the International Monetary Fund.
The International Monetary Fund has said that it expects India's economic growth to accelerate and inch closer to that of China.
Of the seven surveys presented under Modi govt, predictions of three were quite close to the actual GDP growth rate, one saw the base year change in between, but the last three were way off the mark.
Advanced economies are projected to grow by just 2.7 per cent in 2010 and 2.2 per cent in 2011, the IMF report said.
India last year announced tax cuts and increased expenditure to prop up the economy hit by the global economic slowdown.
'It has also saved the government about $ 9 billion in fraud and wastage because by having that unique number you eliminate fakes and duplicates from your beneficiary and employee list,' Nilekani said at an event on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
The IMF said global growth is projected to reach 3.9 per cent in 2018 and 2019, in line with the forecast of the April 2018 WEO, but the expansion is becoming less even, and risks to the outlook are mounting.
Democracy, nation-state and globalisation can't go together; we can have at the most two at one time, says Dani Rodrik.
The Indian economy, by and large, will withstand the current crisis like it withstood the Asian and Western world credit crises.
"So you will not have anything better... democracy loving, capitalist respecting environment... in India," Sitharaman said at the event hosted by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry in association with the US India Strategic and Partnership Forum.
Strauss Khan argued that the stimulus measures adopted by countries to combat the global crisis should be withdrawn only when the economic recovery has taken hold and unemployment is set to decline.
India is expected to grow by 8.75 per cent in 2010 and 8.5 per cent in 2011, driven by a strong domestic demand, International Monetary Fund said in its 2010 World Economic Outlook released here on Wednesday.
The IMF proposals will be reviewed by the finance ministers of G-20, whose representatives are in Washington for meetings this week, The Post reported.
The trend holds true globally as well, but with lower levels of inequality among the sexes, where on average, hourly wages of women are 16 per cent less than those of men.
In the previous week, total reserves dropped by $273.8 million to $312.382 billion.
The International Monetary Fund has welcomed the decision of the United Arab Emirates to come to the rescue of its banks in Dubai and said it is monitoring the situation that took the world market by surprise.
Foreign exchange reserve, often taken as a yardstick to gauge a country's financial strength, are the foreign currency deposits and bonds held by central banks or monetary authorities (it is Reserve Bank in case of India).
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 IMF members' investment in the fund's securities will boost the fund's capacity to help member countries, particularly developing and emerging market countries, cope with the crisis and thus benefit all members by facilitating an early recovery of the global economy. At the same time, the new notes will offer members a safe investment instrument with reasonable return.
"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.
US economy saw massive job losses and falling demand last year.
A continued focus on low inflation will be important to keeping gold imports, IMF said.
For the 2009-10 fiscal, Pranab said, he expects the economy to grow by 7.2 per cent.
Pointing out that action should be immediate, IMF said there should be a collective effort and that each country that has fiscal space should contribute. According to the agency, as the current crisis would last at least for several more quarters, the fiscal stimulus can rely, more than is usual, on spending measures.
With this subdued forecast, India is likely to record its worst growth performance since the 1991 liberalisation. However, it is among the only two major economies, which will register a positive growth rate in 2020. The other being China, for which the IMF has projected a growth rate of 1.2 per cent.
The reserves had jumped $2.03 billion to $277.38 billion in the previous week.
The deteriorating global economy means financial institutions now face total losses of $4,100bn on loans and other assets, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday, urging governments to take "bolder steps" to shore up institutions - including nationalising them where necessary.
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.
Gold reserves rose by $588.8 million to $21.566 billion, as per the RBI data.
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.
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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.
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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