We should again look at the New Zealand model, which gave the flexibility to tackle the deficit and the debt over the medium term.

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India's growth model has been to run a small current-account deficit, financed with high-quality capital inflows, such as foreign direct investment and equity purchases.

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In the Keynesian model, the money government borrows to finance the additional deficit spending magically appears in the form of cash in exchange for government bonds.

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