In India, 'RBI' is responsible for 'Monetary Policy' through which it controls 'Inflation' and Economic Growth'.
In this thread, I am going to focus mainly on the role of RBI and how it uses ‘CRR’ and ‘SLR’ as two major tools to control economy. 🧵👇
(1/n)
Let us first understand few basics before we dig into the details. (2/n)
👉The Businesses:
They are the producers of the goods and services. Any business would be happy if it is growing and the prices of the goods and services sold are ever rising. They would be more interested in ‘Economic growth’. (3/n)
👉The Households:
These are the people who are consumers and they spend money to buy goods/ services which are sold by the businesses. Any consumer would be happy if the prices of goods/ services are low. Hence, they would be interested in ‘Less Inflation’. (4/n)
As the prices of goods and services rise, there will be economic growth in nominal sense but then there will also be inflation which is perceived as a problem in developing countries like India. (5/n)