Shashi Tharoor, a former UN under-secretary-general and former Indian Minister of State for External Affairs and Minister of State for Human Resource Development, is an MP for the Indian National Congress. He is the author, most recently, of Ambedkar: A Life (Aleph Book Company, 2022).
新德里—11月8日,印度总理莫迪宣布,当日午夜,价值14万亿卢比的500和1,000卢比面额钞票——占所有流通中货币的86%——不再是法定货币。印度经济应声陷入混乱。
据称莫迪的目标是兑现其打击“黑钱”——来自逃税、犯罪和腐败的非法所得,通常为现金形式——的竞选承诺。他还想让据报道由巴基斯坦制作、用于助力针对印度的恐怖主义的伪钞变成废纸。但是,近一个月之后,废钞行动的全部成果是一场经济灾难。莫迪的这个决定一点都不高明,倒是一个大大的误算。
宣布废钞立刻引起了一场疯狂,人们竞相兑换即将作废的钞票。尽管印度人到今年年底之前都可以将钞票存入银行,但大量存钱将让他们承担高额税金和罚款。因此他们蜂拥涌向加油站、珠宝店和贷款商归还贷款。银行、外汇兑换点和ATM门口的长龙见首不见尾——一切人们可以换掉这些即将作废的钞票的地点无不人头攒动。
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