India must roll again stimulus step by step: IMF

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Thursday steered India withdraw fiscal and financial coverage stimulus step by step, develop export infrastructure and scale up shipments by stepping into free commerce agreements with key buying and selling companions, in a bid to keep up snug exterior sector stability over medium time period.

These steps, the Fund mentioned, also needs to be accompanied by additional liberalisation of the funding regime and a discount in tariffs, particularly on intermediate items.

Amid a depreciation of the rupee in opposition to the greenback, the Fund steered that interventions within the foreign exchange market be restricted to “addressing disorderly market conditions”. Given that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) already has snug degree of overseas trade reserves regardless of latest drop (these are nonetheless sufficient to cowl eight months of imports), accumulation of further reserves is much less warranted, it mentioned.

In its 2022 External Sector Report, the IMF additionally mentioned: “Structural reforms could deepen integration in global value chains and attract FDI…”  FE

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