Research and Data

The Reserve Bank of India today placed on its website the fourth release titled ‘Agriculture Loan Bank Accounts – A Waiver Scenario Analysis, co-authored by Rajendra Raghumanda, Ravi Shankar and Sukhbir Singh from Department of Statistics and Information Management’ and the fifth release titled ‘Farm Loan Waivers, Fiscal Deficit and Inflation, co-authored by Pratik Mitra, Joice John and Ashish Thomas George from the Monetary Policy Department and Indranil Bhattacharyy

The Reserve Bank of India has today released the data on Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) indicating the comparative position for the month of July 2017 and August 2017 and for the month of August 2016 and August 2017 both under Automatic Route and the Approval Route, for the month of August 2017. Ajit Prasad Assistant Adviser Press Release: 2017-2018/696

The Reserve Bank of India today released the September 2017 issue of its monthly Bulletin. The Bulletin includes Speeches by the Top Management, two Articles and Current Statistics. The two Articles are: I. Monthly Seasonal Factors of Selected Economic Time Series, 2016-17; and II. Private Corporate Investment: Growth in 2016-17 and Prospects for 2017-18. I. Monthly Seasonal Factors of Selected Economic Time Series, 2016-17 Seasonal adjustment of macroeconomic variabl

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Billion) Item 2016 2017 Variation Sep. 2 Aug. 25 Sep. 1 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and advances 4.1 Central Government 91.36 – 199.85 199.85 108.49 4.2 State Governments 16.19 11.29 35.07 23.78 18.88 * Data are provisional. 2. Foreign Exchange Reserves Item As on September 1, 2017 Variation over Week End-March 2017 Year ₹ Bn. US$ Mn. ₹ Bn. US$ Mn. ₹ Bn. US$ Mn. ₹ Bn. US$ Mn. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 Total Reserves 25,469

The Reserve Bank has been conducting the Services and Infrastructure Outlook Survey (SIOS) since 2014-15. The survey is conducted on a quarterly basis. The 14th round of the SIOS seeks an assessment of the business situation for the current quarter (Q2:2017-18, i.e., July - September 2017) from selected companies in the services and infrastructure sectors in India, and their outlook for the ensuing quarter (Q3:2017-18, i.e., October - December 2017).2. The survey ques

The Reserve Bank of India has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended September 01, 2017. Anirudha D. Jadhav Assistant Manager Press Release: 2017-2018/653

Today, the Reserve Bank released the results of the 2016-17 round of the Survey of Foreign Liabilities and Assets of the Mutual Fund (MF) Companies on its website. The survey covers 44 Indian MF companies and their Asset Management Companies (AMCs), which held/acquired foreign assets and/or liabilities during the reference year 2016-17 and/or in the preceding year (See Annex for list of companies). The financial year-end position was collected from MFs through Schedul

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Billion) Item 2016 2017 Variation Aug. 26 Aug. 18 Aug. 25 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and advances 4.1 Central Government – 95.97 – –95.97 – 4.2 State Governments 15.14 43.65 11.29 –32.36 –3.85 * Data are provisional. 2. Foreign Exchange Reserves Item As on August 25, 2017 Variation over Week End-March 2017 Year ₹ Bn. US$ Mn. ₹ Bn. US$ Mn. ₹ Bn. US$ Mn. ₹ Bn. US$ Mn. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 Total Reserves 25,274.3 394,55

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Money Supply for the fortnight ended August 18, 2017. Anirudha D. Jadhav Assistant Manager Press Release : 2017-2018/603

The Reserve Bank of India organised a seminar on ‘Agricultural Debt Waiver – Efficacy and Limitations’. Opening remarks were made by the Governor, Dr. Urjit R. Patel. This was followed by presentations by experts in the area. Four sessions in the seminar comprised presentations of research papers and the remaining two sessions were panel discussions on: (i) Agricultural Debt Waivers: Impact on the Fisc; and (ii) Agricultural Debt Waivers: Impact on the Banking Sector.