Three years after the shock announcement that the bulk of India’s bank notes were being withdrawn, any benefits from “demonetisation” should be evident by now. But the promised gains haven’t materialised and the inadvertent economic positives that have resulted – most notably the greater use of cashless payment methods – have been small when set against the damage caused to incomes and output.
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