Here are the five points
Thursday, 30th April 2020
To boost liquidity within the system, the government should bridge the gap between revenue and expenditure by borrowing more. There will be inflation and an increasing fiscal deficit but the country’s economy can become normal again.
"Monetizing deficit, in other words, means RBI purchasing government bonds in the primary market and printing more money to finance this debt". Until 1990s, this was the norm. From April 1st, 1997, it was replaced by WMA.
Monetizing fiscal deficit by RBI may lead to higher inflation through unproductive spending.
“We are dealing with a pandemic superimposed on a slowdown. The response has to be a coordinated one”, Shaktikanta Das, governor of RBI says. He added, “No view has been formed” in the problem yet.
Source: Economic times