Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Macroeconomic Stabilization
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Balance of Payment Reforms
• Peak rate of custom duty reduced
• Rupee devaluation by 24% in 1991
• Market determined exchange rate system
Monetary Policy Reforms
• Elimination of automatic monetization,
• Interest rate deregulation
Control of Inflation
• Short-term solution: introducing fiscal and monetary discipline
• Long-term solution: improving output and supply of goods and
services
Structural Adjustment Reforms
Industrial Policy Reforms
• Removal of industrial licensing
• De-reservation of PSUs , Disinvestment
Financial Sector Reforms
• Reduction in SLR & CRR
• Market determination
• of interest on government securities
• Interest rate deregulation
• Estb. of SEBI, NSE, IRDA; Bombay Stock Exchange was corporatized
Agriculture Sector Reforms
• Removal of restraints on inter-state movement of food grains
• Restructuring of PDS
• Relaxation of restrictions under the Essential Commodities Act
• Removal of some marketing restrictions on crop produce
Infrastructure Sector Reforms
• TRAI, NHDP, New civil aviation policy, port development, electricity
reforms