PURPOSE The purpose of the assignment is to enhance learners’ understanding of how fiscal policy can be used to achieve economic goals. REQUIREMENT Discuss and evaluate how fiscal policy tools can assist in improving economic growth‚ employment and mitigate inflation. Answer Fiscal policy is a policy concerned with Government Revenues and Government Expenditures. The tools are government expenditures (G)‚ taxes (T)‚ both direct and indirect‚ deficit financing‚ i.e.‚ government
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Management 1. IMPACT OF MONETARY POLICY IN PAKISTAN ON CURRENT ECONOMIC SCENARIO The economy seems to have settled at an unenviable equilibrium of high inflation and low growth. The protracted energy crisis and weak fiscal fundamentals are the main reasons behind this outcome. The pace of increase in domestic debt is also considerable and uncertain global economic conditions do not inspire much confidence either. In this constrained environment the impact of monetary policy has become limited;
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Fiscal Policy as an Economic Stabilization Measure Fiscal Policy refers to the various decisions undertaken by the government regarding public expenditures and revenue. Fiscal Policy is a direct government intervention in the economic processes of an economy. All the sub fiscal policies can be broadly categorized as being either ‘Public Expenditure’ or ‘Public Revenue’. The fiscal policy’s sub-policies are: The Taxation structure – through this fiscal tool the government is able
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Fiscal Policy Assignment The traditional Keynesian approach to fiscal policy differs in three ways from that is presented in the Fiscal Policy Chapter in your textbook. 1. It emphasizes the underpinnings of the components of aggregate demand. 2. It assumes that government expenditures are not substitutes for private expenditures and that current taxes are the taxes taken into account by consumers and firms. 3. The traditional Keynesain approach focuses on the short run and so
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THE IMPACT OF THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR ON NIGERIA ECONOMIC GROWTH PERFORMANCE (1980-2009) ABSTRACT The study set out to ascertain the extent to which Agricultural sector has contributed to the growth of Nigerian economy from 1980 to 2009. As a guide to the study‚ the following hypotheses were formulated: (1) there is no statistical significance between Nigerian agricultural output and real gross domestic product (2) there is no statistical significance relationship between exchange rate fluctuation
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textroad.com The Impact of Monetary Policy on Financial Performance: Evidence from Banking Sector of Pakistan Rashid Zaman*‚ Muhammad Arslan‚ Muhammad Sohail‚ Dr Rashida Khatoon Malik Department of Management Sciences‚ Bahria University Islamabad‚ Pakistan Received: April 29‚ 2014 Accepted: June 27‚ 2014 ABSTRACT Interest rate an important indicator of monetary policy always has major impact on financial sector performance. The purpose of this paper is to enlightened the monetary policy effect on banking
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Monetary policy is the monitoring and control of money supply by a central bank‚ such as the Federal Reserve Board in the United States of America‚ and the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas in the Philippines. This is used by the government to be able to control inflation‚ and stabilize currency. Monetary Policy is considered to be one of the two ways that the government can influence the economy – the other one being Fiscal Policy (which makes use of government spending‚ and taxes).[1] Monetary Policy
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Monetary policy Is the term we use to describe an increase in interest rates or a decrease in interest rates. An increase/decrease in the money supply What is the MPC? Monetary policy Committee- interest rates are set by the banks MPC’s to help meet the inflation target. Who is on the MPC? Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is made up of nine members – the Governor‚ the two Deputy Governors‚ the Bank’s Chief Economist‚ the Executive Director for Markets and four external members appointed
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2008 Recession in America “It is not about how hard you fall‚ but how you get up and keep going.” Economic recession may be a natural phenomenon in the world’s economies. Every market has its peaks and falls‚ definitely the United States of America has hers. In 2008‚ USA experienced another tragic downfall when her market went down and unemployment rate charged up. Millions of workers lost their jobs; from the young‚ the old‚ the whites‚ Asians‚ Latinos‚ both men and women. Distress filled every
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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) takes a number of monetary policy decisions‚ including a change in the level of money supply (M2)‚ the Minimum Rediscount Rate (MRR)‚ or a change in the exchange rate. The central bank defines money supply in two ways: narrow and broad money. Narrow money (M1) is defined to include currency in circulation plus current account deposits with commercial banks. Broad money measures the total volume of money supply in the economy and is defined as narrow money plus savings
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