https://twitter.com/timesofindia/status/1742187814639513945?s=19

  • knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    INR in itself shouldn't be terrible at least as part of a currency mix, my understanding was the rupees used to pay Russia were blocked currency and only usable for Indian exports, which Russia has only limited use for.

    • mughaloid@lemmygrad.ml
      hexagon
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      9 months ago

      Correct, INR is a dead currency for Russia. Because Russia needs good amount of automobiles, high grade finished products which India has none.

      • juchenecromancer@lemmygrad.ml
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        9 months ago

        After liberalization destroyed the little industry India had developed during state capitalism we basically had nothing to offer the world except for cheap software engineers.

            • machiabelly [she/her]
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              9 months ago

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

              this is rough

              • juchenecromancer@lemmygrad.ml
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                9 months ago

                Liberalization was around August I believe so the crisis you linked wasn't a direct result of the liberalization. Its evils took a while to accumulate, but I know family members whose former prosperous factory cities have become ghost towns due to deindustrialization after the License Raj ended.