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    RBI on Inflation: Fight will be prolonged and dogged

    Earlier, the IMF's World Economic Outlook database said that India may become the third biggest economy after the United States and China in the next five years. color:#252525">

    color:#252525">Digital Desk: The Central Banking regulator, while releasing its
    October bulletin of 280 pages said, "The fight against inflation will be
    dogged and prolonged, given the long and variable lags with which monetary
    policy operates and fraught with uncertainties."



    color:#252525">The RBI stated that if the move succeeds, then India’s prospects
    as one of the fastest growing economies in the world enjoying a negative
    inflation differential with the rest of the world will be high.



    color:#252525">International Monetary Fund's MD, Kristalina Georgieva remarked
    at a media briefing during the recent IMF-World Bank annual meeting and said:
    "India deserves to be called a bright spot on this otherwise dark
    horizon."



    color:#252525">The paper is co-authored by RBI Deputy Governor Michael Patra.
    The RBI has made it clear that the views expressed in the article are those of
    the authors and do not represent the views of the RBI.



    color:#252525">Earlier, the IMF's World Economic Outlook database said that
    India may become the third biggest economy after the United States and China in
    the next five years.



    color:#252525">Also, the IMF predicted that India may supersede the United
    Kingdom by this year and become the fifth biggest economy, adding that the
    South Asian country is most likely to reach the position two years earlier than
    initially expected, overtaking Germany and Japan.



    color:#252525">Considering India's prospective to supersede Germany and Japan,
    the IMF's report said that though inflation in India is high, it is not a
    skyrocketing current account deficit and is expected to moderate.



    color:#252525">Meanwhile, the IMF says India's GDP forecast will be 6.8 percent
    in 2022, up from a 7.4 percent prediction in July and an 8.2 percent prediction
    in January. Between April 2021 and March 2022, India's economy grew by 8.7
    percent.