UPSC Economy PYQ breakdown reveals trends, question weightage and key topics like inflation, GDP, banking and fiscal policy.

Check the most repeated topics based on previous year questions including inflation, RBI functions, fiscal policy, GDP concepts, external sector and financial markets.

Central banks in late 2021 kicked off the steepest and most coordinated series of interest rate hikes in four decades to contain the postpandemic inflation outbreak (see Chart 1). Many economists ...

Central bankers are tapping nontraditional data sources for a more complete picture of the economy In the spring of 2020, the Federal Reserve faced a challenge: The COVID-19 pandemic was upending ...

This data series is part of the Center for Monetary Research. The U.S. Monetary Policy Event-Study Database (USMPD) collects high-frequency changes of interest rates and asset prices around Federal ...

The Federal Reserve's dual mandate — price stability and maximum employment — normally provides a clear directional signal for monetary policy. When unemployment rises, the policy prescription is ...

Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, emphasized the high degree of uncertainty stemming from the conflict as he acknowledged the potential for surging energy prices to lift inflation ...

Jerome H. Powell, the chair, said he would stay at the Fed until a successor is in place and a federal investigation is concluded.

The Budget Session, which is the 11th session of the 17th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile for the financial year 2026-2027, scheduled from March 16-30, commenced on Monday morning here in the North Indian ...

MUMBAI: Since the institution of the monetary policy committee (MPC) under RBI governor Urjit Patel as the chairman in June 2016, establishing the flexible inflation-targeting framework, the ...

Students should focus on GDP, demand–supply diagrams, fiscal policy, and previous year questions to improve scores in the ...

GDP isn’t just a quarterly headline, as it shapes fiscal ratios, influences monetary policy, and signals macroeconomic stability. Therefore, when the base year changes, the story of growth may also ...