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Aligning inflation to RBI's 4% target key to ensuring growth: MPC minutes
The New Indian Express Jeypore
|December 21, 2024
THE members of the Reserve Bank rate-setting panel in the minutes of its December meeting released on Friday said high prices are the cause for demand slowdown, and aligning inflation to the central bank's 4% target is the key to ensuring sustained economic growth.
"The monetary policy stance is open to support growth, but it must await the ebbing of inflation on a durable basis or else the uneven progress made so far in disinflation will get dissipated," deputy governor Michael Patra wrote. Inflation is likely to remain contained as disinflationary effect of past monetary policy actions continues to play out. Headline inflation is expected to ease to 4.5% in Q4 and
This story is from the December 21, 2024 edition of The New Indian Express Jeypore.
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