The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) for March 2014 shows an inflation of 5.7%, a sudden jump from February’s (now revised) 4.68%. You will notice that the blue ...
Consumer Price Inflation for Feb 2013 is now at +8.1%. This is the lowest number since December 2011. Both Urban and Rural inflation saw dips, and both are ...
In my last post, I mentioned how, according to RBI’s Rajan, NREGA and MSP have driven up prices of food. There’s another thing: we have been buying more ...
Technical note: How do you see the contribution of any individual element to inflation? Assume we have two items, A and B, which are priced at Rs. 100 each, ...
RBI’s Raghuram Rajan has described why food inflation continues to haunt our inflation expectations over the last few years. Here’s what he says, distilled ...
This is going to be a long essay. RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan has a brilliant explanation of why Inflation is more important to worry about than short-term ...
Wholesale Price Inflation in India for Jan 2014 came in at a low 5.05%, making everyone wonder what they are smoking. (Beedi’s perhaps, which has seen ...
CPI Inflation has eased to the lowest rate since Jan 2012, at 8.79%. The trend is definitely down and nearly all of it is due to the huge drop in food prices. ...
Raghuram Rajan seems to have taken the side of inflation in the controlling inflation versus slowing growth debate. In a speech to the Research and Analysis ...
From the Urijit Committee Report an interesting chart came about – what contributed to WPI inflation over the years. In the 80s, it was manufactured ...
