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India's updated statistical revisions, including the rejigged wholesale price index (WPI) and new output producer price index (PPI), promise to enrich understanding of price movements across the economy.

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Who
T.C.A. Anant, Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
What
India's updated statistical revisions, including the rejigged wholesale price index (WPI) and new output producer price index (PPI), promise to enrich understanding of price movements across the economy.
When
Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:30:24 GMT · 4h 20m ago
Where
India ·
Why
The revisions aim to provide a more accurate and relevant picture of economic reality by reducing volatility, improving imputation of missing data, and aligning indices more closely with production structures.
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These improvements offer the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) new tools for inflation analysis, allowing for the tracing of inflationary pressures from input costs to consumer prices, and will enable assessments of profitability in India's commodity-producing sectors, which becomes particularly critical given the upward trend in WPI and PPI starting around November 2025 and the global crisis beginning in March 2026.

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