Raghuram Rajan
Raghuram Rajan
Raghuram Govind Rajanis an Indian economist currently serving as the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. He was chief economist at the International Monetary Fund from 2003 to 2007, the youngest to occupy the position. He was a professor of finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business from 1991 to 2013, when he went on public service leave...
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth3 February 1963
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The U.S. and China are running on processes which in the long run are unsustainable. Oil prices are proving an increasing strain on growth.
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The primary risk is of a greater slowing of house price growth than anticipated we estimate that the effect of house prices staying flat, as opposed to growing by about 5 percent, could lop one percentage point off U.S. growth.
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Oil and other commodity prices are going to have some effect over time.
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Higher oil prices are a clear and present danger.
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House prices can't increase at the rate in which they have been going over the past few years.
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We expect India to grow at around 7 to 7.5 % in calendar year 2006.
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We see a shifting of global growth away from the United States to other countries. Whether it's enough is still for the jury to decide. The jury is still out.
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It would be fair to say to the world, 'You have never had it so good. But challenges are building in the background.
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It would be fair to say the world has never had it so good.
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The worry is how long will this continue.
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The world economy has proved tremendously resilient over the last few years.
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Europe's citizens do not seem convinced that the bitter medicine of continued structural reforms will cure the stasis that afflicts much of the Continent. It is a failure of politics that people have not come to see that the more they want to retain the attractive European way of life, the more the way they work will have to change.
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People associate inflation targeting somewhat wrongly with rigidity. His theme as an academic was how to depersonalize this whole process.
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People associate inflation targeting somewhat wrongly with rigidity,