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Who is Gita Gopinath

Gita Gopinath

About Gita Gopinath

Who is Gita Gopinath

Indian-born Gita Gopinath is the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). A technocrat and author of several books, she has written research articles on emerging market, trade and investment, stock market and international financial crises. Gopinath is also a professor of economics at Harvard University.
 
Gita Gopinath's career
 
In 2001, Gopinath joined the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business as an assistant professor. After nine years, she moved to Harvard and was appointed as a tenured professor.
 
Currently, she serves as an advisory member at the US Federal Reserve Bank and a co-director of the International Finance and Macroeconomics programme
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Workplace safety key to get more women in labour force: IMF's Gita Gopinath

IMF's Gopinath wants govt to conduct cost-benefit analysis of PLI scheme

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Updated On : 18 Aug 2024 | 11:04 PM IST

India must focus on skilled workforce to become developed by 2047: Gopinath

India has grown well in terms of its overall growth rate, and at 7 per cent, it is the fastest growing major economy in the world, she said

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Updated On : 17 Aug 2024 | 7:13 PM IST

India need more reforms to stay on growth path, create jobs: IMF's Gopinath

Addressing an event here, Gopinath further said that India will be required to reduce import tariffs if it wants to be an important player in the global supply chains

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Updated On : 17 Aug 2024 | 6:47 PM IST

IMF's Gita Gopinath says India could become 3rd largest economy by 2027

India's growth was much better than IMF expectations the last fiscal year and those carryover effects are affecting our forecast for this year, said Gita Gopinath

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Updated On : 16 Aug 2024 | 3:27 PM IST

IMF Chief Kristalina Georgieva wins second term ahead of Spring meetings

Georgieva, 70, led IMF's efforts to aid indebted countries through pandemic and has warned about the global economic impact of trade fragmentation caused by worsening US-China relations

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Updated On : 13 Apr 2024 | 7:57 AM IST

Interest rates likely to fall but last mile very tricky: IMF Chief

IMF Chief Kristalina Georgieva on Thursday said interest rates should keep falling in 2024 but cautioned that there is no room for any policy error as the last mile is "very, very tricky"

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Updated On : 18 Jan 2024 | 10:40 PM IST

Rates to stay higher, battle against inflation not yet over: IMF's Gopinath

Speaking at a session during the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2024 here, Gopinath dismissed the market bets for a cut in interest rates as premature

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Updated On : 16 Jan 2024 | 11:02 PM IST

World's higher-for-longer rate era stokes worry among finance officials

Debt levels are at record high levels at the same time that we're in this higher-for-longer interest-rate environment, said Gita Gopinath, No 2 official at IMF

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Updated On : 14 Oct 2023 | 7:42 PM IST

IMF projects inflation, growth risks if Israel-Hamas conflict widens

It's a bit early to know the full implications of the conflict, and much will depend on whether it draws in other countries, Gita Gopinath said

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Updated On : 12 Oct 2023 | 12:11 AM IST

IMF's Gita Gopinath praises India's G20 Summit message, PM Modi responds

IMF's deputy managing director Gita Gopinath shared a photo with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and complimented him on successfully hosting the G20 Summit

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Updated On : 10 Sep 2023 | 5:12 PM IST
Updated On : 10 Sep 2023 | 11:37 AM IST

Fed should alter its monetary policy framework: IMF's Gita Gopinath

She said central banks should be more willing to tolerate inflation below target at a time when unemployment is already low

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Updated On : 15 Apr 2023 | 6:55 AM IST

Sitharaman, Gita Gopinath meet in US, both discuss debt vulnerabilities

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had a meeting with Gita Gopinath, the First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF, during which they discussed debt vulnerabilities and other issues

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Updated On : 12 Apr 2023 | 8:54 AM IST

High inflation causing tension between monetary and fiscal policy: Gopinath

On what needs to change, she said for the countries to manage such a difficult trade-off right, fiscal policy has to play a role

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Updated On : 18 Jan 2023 | 10:08 PM IST

India better than many economies, needs work on labour mkts: Gita Gopinath

IMF Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath has cautioned that India needs to work on labour markets and land, even as she hailed the country for doing better than many global economies

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Updated On : 18 Jan 2023 | 6:02 PM IST

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Updated On : 15 Dec 2022 | 3:48 PM IST

G20 under India can make progress in debt relief, crypto: Gita Gopinath

Throwing light on the recent crypto meltdown, she said it was clear that internationally agreed standards of regulations had become necessary

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Updated On : 15 Dec 2022 | 10:12 PM IST

WEF 2022: Advanced economies to be back on track by 2024, says Gopinath

Advanced economies will be back on track by 2024, but developing economies will be 5 per cent below where they would have been otherwise, IMF's Gita Gopinath said

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Updated On : 26 May 2022 | 2:45 AM IST

WEF summit: World economy has 'buffer' against recession, says Gopinath

"I would say at 3.6 per cent there is a buffer," she said, conceding, however, that risks are uneven around the world

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Updated On : 24 May 2022 | 1:16 AM IST

IMF warns Russia sanctions can chip away dollar dominance: Report

Financial sanctions imposed on Russia threaten to gradually dilute the dominance of the U.S. dollar and could result in a more fragmented international monetary system, IMF's Gita Gopinath said

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Updated On : 31 Mar 2022 | 11:06 AM IST