India will not win its inflation battle with Western weapons

Aligning fiscal and trade policy with monetary policy would reduce price pressure

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A motorcyclist fills up in Mumbai in June 2022: Pump prices have fallen less in India than elsewhere in part due to high transport sector taxes. © AP

Ritesh Kumar Singh is founder and chief executive of policy research and advisory company Indonomics Consulting in New Delhi.

As in the U.S. and many developed countries, India's inflation rate has run above the central bank's target range for about a year now.

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