The wide-ranging themes covered by the speeches – monetary policy, external sector management, issues in the financial sector and the real economy, economic development and poverty reduction, regulation of banks and financial markets and challenges of managing economic policy in a globalizing environment – are a reflection of the broad mandate of the Reserve Bank and its enduring concern for the larger public good.
7. For a public policy institution like the Reserve Bank, there is no final destination; the goal posts keep moving with new challenges and tasks replacing current ones. The learning too never stops. From each development and crisis, lessons are drawn and applied to policy and institutional reform. BIS Review 3/2010  1  8.