The RBI is expressing a high degree of faith in the finance ministry’s ability to offset a rising public sector wage bill by boosting tax revenues or trimming other forms of current spending. We fear this faith is misplaced and that public investment will end up being scaled back instead. This would shut the door on prospects for further rate cuts in the near term, and could hold back growth over the longer term too.
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