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Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das on Friday said digital currency and rupee settlement of cross-border trade could be areas of greater cooperation among the South Asian countries in the future.

Six years after changing the tradition of presentation of the union budget from the last day of February to the first day of the same month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi government has introduced another major change in the release of macro-economic data.

Robust mobile and internet connectivity has helped India in a big way to expand financial inclusion, while a diverse network of banking correspondents and micro ATMs has ensured last-mile reach, SBI Chairman Dinesh Kumar Khara has said.

Economic inequality has widened sharply in India in the post-Covid period. The top 1 per cent of the country’s population owns more than 40.5...