Why India’s central bank governor has suddenly become a hawk

The 50 bps policy rate hike by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 26 July was a surprise for the markets. But what is more unexpected is the sudden emergence of RBI Governor Duvvuri Subbarao as an inflation hawk. His new anti-inflation stance is introducing strong measures to tackle the structural drivers of inflation that we have consistently stressed in our research, most recently this week in Rural wage increases will sustain structural inflation. But this bold face of the RBI also...

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