This document summarizes the impacts and debates around India's demonetization policy announced in November 2016. It discusses both the perceived benefits such as curbing black money and terrorism financing, as well as significant short-term costs including inconvenience, job losses, and impact on farmers and daily wage earners. While the policy aims for long-term goals of a cashless economy and banking sector reforms, the document argues the implementation faced hurdles due to India's scale and lack of digital infrastructure, and that other enforcement measures could have been pursued instead of or in addition to note ban.