WHAT CAUSED THE 1991 CURRENCY CRISIS IN INDIA? India's post-Independence development strategy was both inward-looking and highly interventionist, consisting of import protection, complex industrial licensing requirements, financial repression, and substantial public ownership of heavy industry. However, macro...
In1991, when the Indian economy was facing a financial crisis, the Indian Government decided to introduce economic reforms. The package of reforms included: liberalization of industrial policy and inviting foreign investment through privatization of industries; liberalization of Export and Import Policy; ...
This book is a follow鈥恥p study to an earlier work tracing India's economy up to 1991. Here the focus is on the economic reforms introduced after the financial crisis of 1991. The authors examine the different areas of the economy and outline the successes and effects of reform measures....
The year 1991 marked a decisive changing point in India's economic policy since independence. Following the 1991 Balance of Payment crisis, major macroeconomic disruptions, sharp increase in interest rates, large currency depreciation, output collapse, decline in the supply of credit, structural ...
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Financial crisis is any broad variety of situations in which some financial assets suddenly loose a large part of their nominal value these situations are interlinked with the stock market crashes and the bursting of the other financial bubbles, currency crisis and sovereign defaults.In the 19th and...
In 1991, India faced a sever balance of payment of crisis. The crisis propelled the Indian leaders to shun old policy of licence permit raj, and open India to the forces of liberalization, privatization and globalization. Indian policymakers apparently realized that in order to harness its ...
decision to abolish bank notes in 2016 showed Mr Modi’s impulsive side. A strongman lacking checks and balances can eventually endanger not just democracy, but also the economy: think of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey, whose bizarre views on inflation have caused a currency crisis....
at the time of India's foreign exchange crisis in 1991. India now has the fifth largest foreign exchange reserves in Asia (after Japan, China, Taiwan and Korea). Nonetheless, India's influence on international financial flows remains relatively small in comparison with that of China and Japan....
We show how a balance of payments crisis arises under an exchange rate peg without capital account convertibility in the model economy and how the instruments of financial repression may be used for exchange rate management. The model is compared to the experience of India, a country that ...