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Inflation
2. Inflation : Structural or Monetary
Causes?
• Monetary Inflation: Sustained increase in the money
supply of a country.
• Structural Inflation: Strongly influenced by Govt’s
monetary policy and economic structure.
• Inflation in India is more structural than monetary.
• India’s economy is dotted by structural imbalances in
various sectors.
• Major sectors contributing to inflation are Agriculture,
Manufacturing,services and Fuel.
• Bottleneck in supply side ,slump in production,decline
in agriculture growth are all major causes for inflation
in india.
3. • The graph shows a very high correlation between repo rate and growth in WPI and
IIP.
• As per the graph, the constant rise in rates has been adversely affecting the
industry as the cost of borrowing has increased, investments have dried up and
profit margins have taken a hit.
4. In the case of food inflation, as the repo rate is increasing, the
growth rate also is increasing.
• Major Contributor to food Inflation is protein rich foods like milk,
pulses, eggs, fish etc.
5. Impact of FDI : Structural/Institutional
Inclusion of 51% foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail
• Attract global supermarkets, such as Walmart, Tesco and Carrefour (Min FDI
- $100 million (Rs 450 crore)
Impact Urban Retail
Market
Rural Retail Market Local Small
Retailer
Local Big
Retailer
Supply Chain
Localized
• Increased
Competitiveness
• Product
Differentiation
• Price Wars
• Increased Penetration of
Markets
• Backward and Forward
Linkages to Kirana Shops,
Local Farmers, Local
Stores in Villages
• Harder to
Compete
• Sales Based on
-Convenience
-Competitive
Pricing
• Harder to
Compete
• Impetus to
innovate
• Brand War
eminent
Job Creation /
Offset
• Training Institutes
& other ancillaries
• Employment for
Middle / Upper
Class
• Offset : Medium
Size Retailer
• Agriculture best practices
• Transportation &
Administrative Jobs
• Offset : Local
Supermarket store will
face severe competition
• Indirect
competition –
minimal impact
• Direct
competition
–impact
eminent
• Survival of
the fittest
Warehousing /
PDS
• Inclusion of multi brand stores will lead to localizing the supply chain & pds system will
be impacted parallelly, adding best practices for supply chain management
6. IMPACT of FDI : Inflation Rate
Investment by
Multi Brand
Outlets
Increased
Competition
Organized
Supply Chain
Job Creation
Increased
Disposable
Income
Increased
Consumption
Inflation
Decrease
Source : India Retail Report 2011
SIMPLISTIC VIEW OF IMPACT OF INFLATION
Reduced
Waste
Middle Man
Cut Out
Increased
Income Of
Farmers
Offset of
Existing
Distributors
8. Producer Prices in India increased 1.77 percent in October of 2014 over the
same month in the previous year. Producer Prices Change in India averaged
7.66 Percent from 1969 until 2014, reaching an all time high of 34.68 Percent
in September of 1974 and a record low of -11.31 Percent in May of 1976.
Producer Prices Change in India is reported by the Office of the Economic
Advisor, India.
Editor's Notes
#5: With the change in purchasing power, the trend of food consumption has shifted from carbohydrate rich foods to protein rich foods.
In the case of pulses,the problem is compounded by the fact that India is the single biggest consumer and only a handful of other countries produce in quantities that India demands.