Prime Ministers: Morarji Desai, Charan Singh

The Age Of Stars

Partition, planning, aid consortia and nationalised banks.

Vol. CVThe edition of 1979 · The Planned Republic7 records
Prime Ministers
Morarji Desai · Charan Singh
President
N. Sanjiva Reddy
Finance Ministers
Hirubhai M. Patel · Charan Singh · Morarji Desai · Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna
RBI Governor
I.G. Patel

Bank Rate

9%

unchanged on 1978

Rupee per dollar

₹8.16

−0.5% on 1978

Inflation

6.28%

+3.75 pts on 1978

GDP growth

-5.24%

−10.95 pts on 1978

Reserves

$11,815m

+42.1% on 1978

External debt

$18,190m

+10.1% on 1978

Crude oil · 1 January 1979

Second oil shock (Iranian revolution, Iran–Iraq war)

Arabian Light official price ~US$13 (1978) → ~US$32–34 (1980–81), reported

Precursor to the 1981 IMF EFF

ReportedOfficial record. Source: OPEC ASB

Markets & Money

2 items

US interest rates; developing-country external debt · 6 October 1979

Volcker shock", US monetary tightening

The 1991-crisis article I opened states: "The Volcker shock caused capital outflows from the developing world, causing external dollar denominated debt crises and economic slowdowns in Latin America and other developing countries, including India." Numerical rate levels are owned by the MARKET_RATE slice

ReportedPress. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Indian_economic_crisis

War & Unrest

4 items

Central / South Asia

Soviet war in Afghanistan

India did not condemn the USSR at the UN (Jan 1980). US arms flowed to Pakistan (1981 package). The war coincided with the second oil shock and the run-up to the 1981 IMF EFF

ReportedOfficial record. Source: UNGA ES-6/2 (1980) voting record; FRUS / CRS

West Asia / Persian Gulf

Iranian revolution (Jan–Feb 1979)

Removal of a major crude supplier and the trigger of the 1979–80 oil price surge; disruption of Indian expatriate contracts and remittance flows in the Gulf

ReportedPress. Source: (s. "After the Iranian Revolution") (en.wikipedia.org)

South-Central Asia

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (from 1979-12-24)

India abstained on the UN resolution condemning the intervention and preserved Soviet arms and trade ties; the war drove US military and economic aid to Pakistan and expanded the Afghan transit trade; Cold War re-freeze constrained India–US economic relations

ReportedPress. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War

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