The man who saved India during Global Economic Crisis – Dr. Y. V Reddy

This is reference to an article that appeared in India’s Business Standard newspaper on 22 July 2009 under the same title. It reviews a recent book, India and the Global Financial Crisis, by Dr Y. V. Reddy, who was governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) over 2003–08. This period saw exceptional challenges to macro management, and it was largely owing to the pre-emptive – but unpopular – policies of the RBI under Dr Reddy that India managed to avoid a far more debilitating hit from the global credit crisis. The charts on the left have been added for this note and were not included in the newspaper version.

We recommend our readers to Read the book by Dr. Y. V Reddy.