The Benegal brothers

The Report on Currency and Finance. Prof. Basu's Policy Maker's Journal.

The Benegal brothers

The contribution of the four Benegal brothers to Indian administration, education, freedom struggle, social justice, judiciary, constitution-making, diplomacy, central banking, banking regulation, and international law is relatively unknown. In this post, I overview their life and contributions. I will post separate articles on them.

The Report on Currency and Finance

As suggested by a journalist, the Reserve Bank of India republished its Report on Currency and Finance (RCF) early this year after a gap of eight years. In this post, I trace the history of RCF. The reader may judge whether the revival was necessary.

Kaushik Basu’s Policy Maker’s Journal

Few have written as much as Prof. Kaushik Basu to make Economics and economic policy accessible to the lay public. In my view, he was perhaps the best Governor that the Reserve Bank never had in recent times.

In this post, I review Prof Basu’s most recent book, Policy Maker’s Journal. It covers his tenure as Chief Economic Adviser, Government of India, and Chief Economist, World Bank.