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    Raghuram Rajan

    Raghuram Rajan is the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance
    at the University of Chicago’s Booth School. He was the Governor of the Reserve Bank of
    India between 2013 and 2016, Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Bank for International
    Settlements (2015-16) and Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund (2003-
    2006).

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      Federal Reserve
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      Beliefs in an immaculate disinflation with only mild job losses could soon be put to the test

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      QE has become ‘Hotel California’ for central banks

      While commercial lenders change behaviour when the balance sheet expands, they do not change it back when it shrinks

    • Monday, 9 January, 2023
      Federal Reserve
      Central banks can’t win when it comes to credibility on inflation

      Institutions are scrambling to rebuild their toolkits to deal with the new regime

    • Friday, 26 August, 2022
      Central banks
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      Despite their slow reaction, now is not the time for a radical redesign of their mandates

    • Friday, 6 May, 2022
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      We need to revitalise the world economy in inclusive ways

      It is hard but necessary for governments to reverse the trend towards deglobalisation

    • Tuesday, 2 November, 2021
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      The world needs a plan that supplants fuzzy commitments with real penalties for the big polluters

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      Advanced industrial countries can and should take measures to spur investment and growth around the globe

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      Useful infrastructure investment makes better sense than badly designed handouts

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      State support for Covid-hit companies has to change

      The blanket help governments first provided needs to be better targeted and private expertise brought in

    • Thursday, 15 October, 2020
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      Raghuram Rajan: ‘Society has to find a new equilibrium’

      In the first of a series, the former Indian central banker explains why the solution to economic adversity is to strengthen local communities

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      Rich countries cannot win the war against coronavirus alone

      We need to fight this pandemic into submission everywhere in order to relax measures anywhere

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      The French economist’s data-driven analysis of inequality offers a flawed prospectus for change

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      Rich countries that pump out more than average should pay into a fund that rewards low emitters

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      While elected leaders can blame predecessors in bad times, Beijing must appear unfailing

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      Economist warns of the risks of eroding the Reserve Bank of India’s independence

    • Sunday, 12 August, 2018
      Indian business & finance
      Bank of Baroda chair tells New Delhi to back off state bank hires

      Government involvement in hiring top executives hurts institutions, says Ravi Venkatesan

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