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Govt, RBI make coordinated policy moves to fight rupee drop, cash crunch

Recent measures to shore up rupee have underwhelmed and pressure is building on the authorities to do more to curb the yawning trade- and current-account deficits

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Kartik Goyal & Anirban Nag | Bloomberg
India upped the ante in its efforts to restore investor confidence, with the central bank taking measures to ease liquidity for lenders a day after the government raised import tariffs to support the battered rupee.

The Reserve Bank of India allowed banks to dip further into statutory liquidity reserves to help them meet their liquidity coverage ratio needs, a step that would boost cash available for lending. On Wednesday, the government raised import taxes on $12 billion of goods as it seeks to narrow the current-account deficit from a five-year high.

The coordinated policy moves come as Asia’s third-largest economy

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