Twin-deficit fears

The latest quarterly balance of payments data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) show that the current account deficit, or CAD, rose sharply for the quarter that ended in December 2011. In the three months of October, November and December 2011, CAD was 4.3 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), a full two percentage points higher than the figure for the corresponding quarter the previous year.

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