Defend: The New Economic Policy (1991) brought significant liberalization reforms that impacted the role of the RBI:
Deregulation of Financial Sector: RBI shifted from controlling credit to regulating it, emphasizing monetary policy formulation over direct intervention in lending activities.
Banking Sector Reforms: RBI played a key role in introducing prudential norms and supervising financial institutions to enhance efficiency and transparency.
Read the following statements carefully:
Statement 1: Expost savings and Expost investments are equal at all levels of income.
Statement 2: Under the effective demand principle, the equilibrium output is equal to exante Aggregate Demand (AD). In the light of the given statements, choose the correct alternative from the following: