Talking Financial Inclusion in Liberalised India – Conversations with Governors of Reserve Bank of India … Edited by M.S. Sriram, Routledge, Oxon, U.K. Pp.xviii+229. Rs. 795.00 … The book explores the changing landscape for financial inclusion over the years for reforms and liberalisation, and is a collection of interviews conducted by Prof. M S Sriram with Governors from the Reserve Bank of…

Prof. Nalini Prava Tripathi, IIM Shillong … I feel the interest rates should remain at the existent levels or should go down by 25 basis points, to ease the liquidity crunch pervasive in the country and in the finance sector particularly. Monetary Policy as it is known, determines the outlook of the lending and borrowing rates. Major considerations are given to the macroeconomic factors…

I must thank Prof. Jaspal Singh Sandhu, Vice-Chancellor, Guru Nanak Dev University for inviting me to deliver this lecture. I am honored by this invitation. I am also humbled because I am a product of this University named after Guru Nanak Dev ji, and many of you as Professors have been my teachers. I have learnt many things in the hallowed and famed halls in this campus, and at your feet. At the…

Source: "Four Years Of Modi Government Reforms: A Stocktaking," pages 89 -102 in "Making Of New India," editors Bibek Debroy, Anirban Ganguly and Kishore Desai; Wisdom Tree, New Delhi, 2018. Introduction … In a paper titled, “National Reform Agenda for Growth & Welfare,” the author[1] (Virmani 2014) laid out what a new Govt needed to do.[2] Virmani (2014) analysis was that, “The unshackling…