Reality Check for India's Central Bank as Slowdown Deepens

  • Governor Patel’s hopes for a ‘V-shaped’ recovery now dashed
  • Cuts to fuel levy indicate government is ‘blinking’: analyst

Inside the RBI's Growth and Inflation Dilemma

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India’s central bank has finally accepted the inevitable -- growth in the $2 trillion economy is slowing more than it expected.

It means recovery from an unprecedented cash ban imposed late last year by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be a long, drawn out one and not the V-shaped bounce Governor Urjit Patel had hoped for.