How to Measure Inflation in India?
Publication date
जन, 2010Details
Report submitted to the Ministry of Finance, Government of IndiaAuthors
Ajay Shah, Ila Patnaik, Giovanni VeroneseAbstract
The study addresses those issues which inflation measures best capture in the inflation dynamics in India as well as the measure which is most relevant for monetary policy making in India. It explores questions of timeliness, weights in the price index, accuracy of food price measurement, and the relevance of services prices for measuring inflation in India.