Government should expedite rebasing CPI: RBI paper

The current indices are derived from the consumption expenditure survey (CES) conducted during 2011-2012, long before Inflation targeting was adopted as a formal monetary policy objective. ” Efforts to conduct new CES for rebasing CPI to a recent period may be expedited to make the CPI consumption basket relevant to the present consumption behaviour ” said a research paper by RBI economists.

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