Professional Documents
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• Securitised Debt
Institutional Arrangements with
RBI
• Banker and Debt Manager to Central
Government by Statute
Revenue Deficit 3.26 2.49 2.50 4.01 4.39 4.40 3.56 2.51 2.60 2.14
Gross Primary 4.07 1.49 0.86 0.93 1.47 1.11 -0.03 -0.06 0.46 0.22
Deficit
Financing Pattern of Centre’s
Gross Fiscal Deficit
• Low Share of External Borrowings
• Substantial Increase in Share of Domestic
Open Market Borrowings
1990- 1991- 1995- 2000- 2001- 2002- 2003- 2004- 2005- 2006-
91 92 96 01 02 03 04 05 06 07
(RE) (BE)
External 7.1 14.9 0.5 6.3 4.0 -8.2 -10.9 11.8 5.1 5.6
Finance
Market 17.9 20.7 56.4 61.8 64.4 71.8 72.1 40.7 69.2 76.5
Borrowing
Others 49.5 45.5 26.8 32.9 32.7 35.2 42.0 54.0 15.4 17.9
Borrowing
Trends in Government Debt-GDP
Ratio
• Similar to the Trends in Budget Deficit
90
80
70
60
Per cent
50
40
30
20
10
0
1980-81 1990-91 1996-97 2000-01 2004.05 2006-07
(BE)
18
16
14
12
Per cent / Years
10
8
6
4
2
0
1995-96
1996-97
1997-98
2003-04
1998-99
1999-00
2000-01
2001-02
2002-03
2004-05
2005-06
Weighted Average Yield (per cent) Weighted Average Maturity (years)
Yield Curve
• Development of a Smooth Yield Curve
16
14
12
10
Per cent
8
6
4
2
0
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29
Maturity (Years)
0% 5%
1%
0% C o mme rcia l B anks
13% 25%
Life Ins ura nce C o rp o rat io n o f Ind ia #
NAB AR D
P rimary d e a lers
56%
Ot he rs
Em ployees Provident
20%
Fund Schem e
53% Coal Mines Provident
Fund Schem e
Prim ary dealers
Others
External Borrowings
• Low Share of External Debt
• External Borrowings only from Multilateral
and Bilateral Sources
100.0
80.0
Per cent
60.0
40.0
20.0
0.0
1950-51 1980-81 1990-91 2000-01 2006-07
(BE)
• Cautious approach
• Sovereign, corporates, financial
intermediaries
• Total External debt $132 bn as at end
Sept 2006
• Long-term debt $126 bn
• Rise in external debt –ECBs, NRI, short-
term
State Governments
Trends in Budget Deficit
• Strong Improvement since early part of this
decade
• Build up of Surplus Cash Balance in Recent
Years: Buyback of Securities by some States
1990- 1991- 1995- 2000- 2001- 2002- 2003- 2004- 2005- 2006-
91 92 96 01 02 03 04 05 06 07
(RE) (BE)
GFD 3.3 2.89 2.65 4.25 4.21 4.17 4.46 3.5 3.23 2.68
Revenue Deficit 0.93 0.87 0.69 2.54 2.59 2.25 2.22 1.17 0.49 0.05
Gross Primary 1.78 1.22 0.8 0.09 -0.15 -0.61 -0.75 -1.65 -2.03 -2.47
Deficit
Financing Pattern of Fiscal Deficit
• Share of Central Loans has reduced
• Share of Market Loans has increased since
early 1990s
• NSSF continues to predominate
1990- 1991- 1995- 2000- 2001- 2002- 2003- 2004- 2005- 2006-
91 92 96 01 02 03 04 05 06 07
(RE) (BE)
Loan From 53.1 49.6 47.1 9.4 11.4 -0.9 11.5 -15.1 2.3 4.8
Central Gov.
Market 12.0 17.5 18.7 14.0 18.0 27.9 38.4 30.1 15.7 21.0
Borrowing
Others 33.3 32.9 34.2 40.2 33.5 21.9 33.2 18.5 17.0 20.7
Fiscal Reforms
• Twelfth Finance Commission
Fiscal Restructuring Plan: Fiscal Discipline
Incentivised Enactment of FRL through Debt
Consolidation and Relief Facility (DCRF)
Financial Disintermediation by Centre
• Experience
FRL Enactment – 24 States
RD to be nearly eliminated and GFD-GDP ratio to
decline to 2.7% in 2006-07
Market Borrowings of State
Governments
• Till 1998-99: Tap Issuances
• States encouraged to adopt auction route:
– 100 % of market borrowing in 2006-07 so far
as against 48.5% in 2005-06 and 2% in 2004-
05 conducted through auctions
• Auction calendar proposed to be issued by
States
State Government Securities -
issues
• Negligible Secondary Market Liquidity
– Low level of outstanding stock
– Predominance of buy-and-hold investors
– Disconnect between the uniform coupon fixed in
tap issues and secondary market yield
– Fragmentation across issuers and securities
• Proposed Measures
– Non-competitive bidding
– Issuance calendar
– Use for Liquidity adjustment facility
Corporate Bond Market
Corporate Bond Market
• Corporate Bond markets historically late to
develop
• Access to bank credit
• Access to external sources of finance
• Require well developed accounting legal and
regulatory systems
• Rating agencies
• Rigorous disclosure standards and effective
governance of corporations
• Payment and settlement systems
• Secondary markets
Reforms in Corporate Bond Market