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The Indian government named a successor to Raghuram Rajan as governor of the Reserve Bank of India, nine weeks after his surprise decision to step down. Mr Rajan’s replacement is Urjit Patel, a deputy governor at the central bank who is credited with shaping an inflation-targeting framework that has helped tame prices. See article.

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