The fundamental value of the rupee
The HinduThe first thing that comes to mind when speaking of the value of a currency is the exchange rate it commands in international transactions. The RBI’s reputation On May 19, the Reserve Bank of India announced that the ₹2,000 note is being withdrawn from circulation but that it will remain legal tender. First, it should not have taken much for the RBI to recognise in 2016 that the ₹2,000 note, issued after notes of much lower denominations had been demonetised, was likely to be used by few people for the majority of transactions in India are of far lower monetary value. If now the government’s economists say that black money hoards will be extinguished with the ₹2,000 note withdrawn, they must accept as folly the printing of these very notes immediately after the demonetisation in 2016. Editorial |Slow withdrawal: on the RBI and the ₹2,000 note In 2016, the government amended the RBI Act of 1933 to redefine monetary policy as the control of inflation.