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This is a list of tables showing the historical timeline of the exchange rate for the Indian rupee (INR) against the special drawing rights unit (SDR), United States dollar (USD), pound sterling (GBP), Deutsche mark (DM), euro (EUR) and Japanese yen (JPY). The rupee was worth one shilling and sixpence in sterling in 1947.
Since 1991, the rupee has been under a floating exchange rate regime. [94] The first major impact on the rupee's exchange rate after independence was the devaluation of the pound sterling against the US dollar in 1949, which impacted currencies that maintained a peg to the sterling, which included the Indian rupee. [95]
Currency distribution of global foreign exchange market turnover [1. Currency ... 88.5%: 0.2pp Euro: EUR € 32.3%: 30.5%: 1.8pp ... Indian rupee: INR ₹ 1.7%: 1.6% ...
5.2 Euro as exchange rate anchor. 5.3 Composite exchange rate anchor. 5.4 Monetary aggregate target. 5.5 Other. 6 Crawling peg. ... Indian Rupee as exchange rate anchor
This is a list of circulating fixed exchange rate ... Indian rupee: 1 Bolivian boliviano ... Euro: 1.95583 Brunei dollar: Singapore dollar: 1 Bulgarian lev: Euro: 1. ...
At the time of independence (in 1947), India's currency was pegged to pound sterling, and the exchange rate was a shilling and six pence for a rupee — which worked out to ₹13.33 to the pound. [23] The dollar-pound exchange rate then was $4.03 to the pound, which in effect gave a rupee-dollar rate in 1947 of around ₹3.30.
[5] In floating exchange rate regimes, exchange rates are determined in the foreign exchange market, [6] which is open to a wide range of different types of buyers and sellers, and where currency trading is continuous: 24 hours a day except weekends (i.e. trading from 20:15 GMT on Sunday until 22:00 GMT Friday).
A depreciation has the opposite effect. [5] Special interest groups subsequently lobby for increases or decreases in the currency. [5] Governments are generally punished for currency depreciations. [10] If a country relies on many imported goods, a currency depreciation can reduce living standards, weaken economic growth, and increase inflation ...