Research and Data

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended July 07, 2023 and Money Supply for the fortnight ended June 30, 2023. Ajit Prasad Director (Communications) Press Release: 2023-2024/586

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Crore) Item 2022 2023 Variation Jul. 1 Jun. 23 Jun. 30 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and Advances 4.1 Central Government 0 0 0 0 0 4.2 State Governments 12424 12339 9835 -2504 -2589 * Data are provisional. 2. Foreign Exchange Reserves* Item As on June 30, 2023 Variation over Week End-March 2023 Year ₹ Cr. US$ Mn. ₹ Cr. US$ Mn. ₹ Cr. US$ Mn. ₹ Cr. US$ Mn. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 Total Reserves 4881602 595051 15161 1853 1273

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended June 30, 2023. Ajit Prasad Director (Communications) Press Release: 2023-2024/546

Today the Reserve Bank of India placed on its website a Working Paper titled, “Portfolio Flows and Exchange Rate Volatility: An Empirical Estimation for BRICS Countries” under the Reserve Bank of India Working Paper Series1. The paper is co-authored by Dipak R. Chaudhari, Pushpa Trivedi and Prabhat Kumar. The paper investigates the effects of net equity and bond portfolio inflows on exchange rate volatility of five BRICS currencies (Brazilian Real, Russian Ruble, Indi

The Reserve Bank of India has launched the 62nd round of its Order Books, Inventories and Capacity Utilisation Survey (OBICUS). The survey is for the reference period April - June 2023 (Q1:2023-24). The Reserve Bank has been conducting the Order Books, Inventories and Capacity Utilisation Survey (OBICUS) of the manufacturing sector on a quarterly basis since 2008. The information collected in the survey includes quantitative data on new orders received during the refe

Today, the Reserve Bank of India placed on its website a Working Paper titled, “Regime-Dependent Determinants of the Uncollateralised Overnight Rate: The Interplay of Operating Procedure and Market Microstructure” under the Reserve Bank of India Working Paper Series1. The paper is co-authored by Edwin Prabu A and Indranil Bhattacharyya. Under the current operating procedure of monetary policy, the Reserve Bank of India has adopted the weighted average call rate (WACR)

The value of exports and imports of services during May 2023 is given in the following table. International Trade in Services (US$ Million) Month Receipts (Exports) Payments (Imports) January – 2023 27,999 (29.5) 14,827 (12.0) February – 2023 27,395 (28.6) 14,974 (15.4) March – 2023 30,439 (13.0) 16,958 (10.5) April – 2023 25,842 (7.5) 13,626 (-3.1) May – 2023 27,060 (7.7) 15,502 (2.0) Notes: (i) Data for April-May are provisional while those for January-March are rev

Today, the Reserve Bank organised its 17th Annual Statistics Day Conference as a part of the ‘National Statistics Day’ celebrations in the memory of Late Professor Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, who made invaluable contributions to the Indian statistical system and economic planning. On this occasion, Shri Shaktikanta Das, Governor launched the Reserve Bank’s next generation data warehouse, viz., the Centralised Information Management System (CIMS). In his inaugural ad

Today, the Reserve Bank released data relating to India’s International Investment Position for end-March 2023[1]. Key Features IIP during January-March 2023: Net claims of non-residents on India declined by US$ 5.7 billion during Q4:2022-23 and stood at US$ 367.8 billion in March 2023. Indian residents’ overseas financial assets increased by US$ 27.1 billion during the quarter, which was higher than the rise in foreign-owned assets in India (US$ 21.4 billion) and led

The stock of external debt at end-March 2023 as well as revised data for earlier quarters are set out in Statements I (IMF format1) and II (old format). The major developments relating to India’s external debt as at end-March 2023 are presented below. Highlights At end-March 2023, India’s external debt was placed at US$ 624.7 billion, recording an increase of US$ 5.6 billion over its level at end-March 2022 (Table 1). The external debt to GDP ratio declined to 18.9 pe