We doubt that India’s revamped consumer price data will change the near-term monetary policy outlook. The real benefit lies further ahead; the new series does a better job of capturing economic realities, and a less volatile headline inflation rate due to a lower weighting for food prices should reduce the chances of monetary policy missteps from the RBI.
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