MONETARY POLICY TOOLS OF KENYA AND ITS EFFECTIVENESS IN THE RECENT YEARS * INTRODUCTION Kenya‚ officially the Republic of Kenya‚ is a sovereign state in East Africa. Although Kenya is one of the biggest economy in Africa‚ Kenya is still developing with a Human Development Index (HDI) of 0.519 putting the country at a position of 145 out of 186 – one of the lowest in the world and about 38% of Kenyans live in absolute poverty. The most important agriculture sector is one of the least
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INTERACTION OF FISCAL AND MONETARY POLICY IN INDIA Introduction: Before understanding how the fiscal policy and monetary policy operate in coordination with each other‚ let us first understand the objective behind the formulation of these policies in brief. Monetary Policy: Monetary policy is the process by which monetary authority of a country‚ generally a central bank controls the supply of money in the economy by exercising its control over interest rates in order to maintain price stability
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Introduction Monetary policy is the key tool used by Federal Reserve to monitor and control US economy. According to Vance Roley and Gordon H. Selon‚ in their article “Monetary Policy Actions and Long-Term Interest Rates”: “It is generally believed that monetary policy actions are transmitted to the economy through their effect on market interest rates. According to this standard view‚ a restrictive monetary policy by the Federal Reserve pushes up both short-term and long-term interest rates
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MONETARY POLICY OF BANGLADESH AND ITS IMPACT ON ECONOMY Monetary policy is concerned with the measures taken to control the supply of money‚ the cost and availability of credit. Further‚ it also deals with the distribution of credit between the uses and the users‚ the lending and borrowing rates of the banks. In a developing country like ours the monetary policy has been effectively used as a tool for overcoming depression and inflation. As Prof R. Prebisch writes “The time has come to formulate
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Kuwait Chapter of Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review Vol. 1‚ No. 11; July 2012 INFLATION TARGETING AND MONETARY POLICY INSTRUMENTS: EVIDENCE FROM NIGERIAN AND GHANA Osuji Casmir Chinaemerem Department of Accounting‚ Banking & Finance Delta State University‚ Asaba Campus. Delta State Nigeria. & Akujuobi‚ L.E (Ph.D) Department of Financial Management Technology (FMT) School of Management Technology Federal University of Technology‚ Owerri (FUTO) PMB 1526 Owerri‚ Imo State‚ Nigeria ABSTRACT
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Expansionary fiscal policy is a form of fiscal policy in which a decrease in taxes‚ and/or an increase in transfer payments are used to correct the problems of a business-cycle contraction. The goal of expansionary fiscal policy is to close a recessionary gap‚ stimulate the economy‚ and decrease the unemployment rate. I will now evaluate the view that expansionary Fiscal Policy is always beneficial to the UK’s macro-economic performance. One way expansionary fiscal policy can be beneficial to the
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11 China’s Monetary Policy and IMF Outline I. Intro A. IMF and China B. In this paper‚ I will discuss… II. Body A. China’s monetary system PBOC Open Market Operation RRR B. 1994 “Monetary” Crisis in China Background and causes Phenomenon and effects IMF’s response and action C. 1997 East Asian Crisis Summary of what happened China’s action Build up official reserves Don’t have to borrow from IMF Keep exchange rate competitive D. China’s contemporary monetary policy and regulation
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U.S Monetary Policy in 1995 When Alan Greenspan presented the Federal Reserve’s semi-annual report on monetary policy to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy‚ the Committee on Banking and Financial Services‚ and the U.S. House of Representatives on February‚ Dr. Greenspan touted a cautionary yet favorable view of the U.S. economy. He states that "With inflationary pressures apparently receding‚ the previous degree of restraint in monetary policy was no longer deemed
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Monetary Policy in the United States 1. Identify at least three problems facing the FED in achieving its goals of monetary policy and give your recommendations on how to deal with each of the problems you list. Inflation presents a problem for the FED achieving it’s goal of price stability. Inflation is unavoidable as far as the natural progression of an economy is concerned. Supply and demand also affect inflation. While the FED cannot control supply and demand of a product‚ I would suggest that
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Fiscal Policy vs. Monetary Policy With America in recovery from the attacks on our freedom and our economy‚ many wonder if we will return to phase one (expansion) and how long it will take to reach phase two (recession) again. The Keynesian Theorists of America believe that the government should actively pursue Monetary policies (enacted by the Federal Reserve Bank) and Fiscal policies (enacted by Congress) to reach adjustments to price‚ employment‚ and growth levels. In our full market economy
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