The key channel through which the crisis in Ukraine will impact India's economy is higher oil prices. If sustained, higher prices would harm real incomes and dampen the economic recovery, which the RBI has been at pains to stress that it is still prioritising. But on balance, with headline inflation already elevated and given the harmful impact on the current account, we think a sustained period of high prices would hasten policy normalisation.
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