Research and Data

The Reserve Bank of India hosted the fifteenth L.K. Jha Memorial Lecture on December 11, 2017 in Mumbai. The lecture was delivered by Professor Vijay Joshi, Emeritus Fellow, Merton College, Oxford. Governor Dr. Urjit R. Patel welcomed the guests and highlighted the significance of the L.K. Jha Memorial Lecture series instituted by the Reserve Bank of India in 1990. Prof. Vijay Joshi has written several books on India, including India’s Long Road: The Search for Prospe

The Reserve Bank of India today placed on its website the eighth release under the series ‘Mint Street Memos (MSM)’ titled “State Government Yield Spreads – Do Fiscal Metrics Matter?” The paper authored by Seema Saggar, Rahul T and Madhusudan Adki from Internal Debt Management Department analyses the causes of spreads of State Development Loans (SDLs) relative to the yields of central government securities of corresponding maturity. The views and opinions expressed in

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Billion) Item 2016 2017 Variation Dec. 2 Nov. 24 Dec. 1 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and advances 4.1 Central Government – – – 0.00 0.00 4.2 State Governments – 29.03 0.55 –28.48 0.55 * Data are provisional. 2. Foreign Exchange Reserves Item As on December 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 25,894.1 401,942.0 –42.8

(Amount in Billions of ₹) SCHEDULED COMMERCIAL BANKS (Including RRBs) ALL SCHEDULED BANKS 25-Nov-2016 10-NOV-2017 * 24-NOV-2017 * 25-Nov-2016 10-NOV-2017 * 24-NOV-2017 * I LIABILITIES TO THE BKG.SYSTEM (A) a) Demand & Time deposits from bks. 1893.17 1394.15 1379.08 1963.48 1444.69 1428.82 ** b) Borrowings from banks 500.75 618.71 619.53 501.47 619.57 619.74 c) Other demand & time liabilities 40.45 141.78 155.65 40.45 142.78 157.01 II LIABILITIES TO OTHERS (A)

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended December 01, 2017 and Money Supply for the fortnight ended November 24, 2017. Ajit Prasad Assistant Adviser Press Release: 2017-2018/1550

The Reserve Bank of India today released on its website the results of the following Surveys: Consumer Confidence Survey (CCS) – November 2017 Inflation Expectations Survey of Households (IESH) – November 2017 Survey of Professional Forecasters on Macroeconomic Indicators – Round 49 The Survey results are based on the feedback received from the respondents to the Surveys and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Reserve Bank of India. Ajit Prasad Assistant Advis

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Billion) Item 2016 2017 Variation Nov. 25 Nov. 17 Nov. 24 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and advances 4.1 Central Government – – – 0.00 0.00 4.2 State Governments 14.21 11.23 29.03 17.80 14.82 * Data are provisional. 2. Foreign Exchange Reserves Item As on November 24, 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 25,936.9 400,741.

Data on sectoral deployment of bank credit collected from select 41 scheduled commercial banks, accounting for about 90 per cent of the total non-food credit deployed by all scheduled commercial banks, for the month of October 2017 are set out in Statements I and II. Highlights of the sectoral deployment of bank credit are given below: On a year-on-year (y-o-y) basis, non-food bank credit increased by 6.6 per cent in October 2017, marginally lower than the increase of

The Reserve Bank of India has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended November 24, 2017. Ajit Prasad Assistant Adviser Press Release: 2017-2018/1480