Inflation targeting is a monetary policy in which a central bank has an explicit target inflation rate for the medium term and announces this inflation target to the public. The assumption is that the best that monetary policy can do to support long-term growth of the economy is to maintain price stability. The central bank uses interest rates, its main short-term monetary instrument.
An inflation-targeting central bank will raise or lower interest rates based on above-target or below-target inflation, respectively. The conventional wisdom is that raising interest rates usually cools the economy to reign in inflation; lowering interest rates usually accelerates the economy, thereby boosting inflation.
History
Early proposals of monetary systems targeting the price level or the inflation rate, rather than the exchange rate, followed the general crisis of the gold standard after World War I. Irving Fisher proposed a "compensated dollar" system in which the gold content in paper money would vary with the price of goods in terms of gold, so that the price level in terms of paper money would stay fixed. Fisher's proposal was a first attempt to target prices while retaining the automatic functioning of the gold standard. In his Tract on Monetary Reform (1923), John Maynard Keynes advocated what we would now call an inflation targeting scheme. In the context of sudden inflations and deflations in the international economy right after World War I, Keynes recommended a policy of exchange rate flexibility, appreciating the currency as a response to international inflation and depreciating it when there are international deflationary forces, so that internal prices remained more or less stable.
"By announcing a medium-term inflation target, the BSP aims to strengthen its forward-looking ap-proach to monetary policy formulation with the view of helping anchor inflation expectations to the target," the central bank added.
This figure aligns with the government’s inflation target of two to four percent for the year ... the inflation target range of two to four percent for 2025-2026 and set the same target for 2027-2028.
We do anticipate that interest rates will stay elevated amid slowing inflation, which remains above the Fed’s 2% target rate ... While inflation has declined from 9.1% in June 2022 to less than 3%, the Federal Reserve’s 2% target remains elusive.
The latest inflation figures align with the BOJ’s 2% inflation target, a benchmark the central bank has long struggled to meet consistently ... confident about the sustainability of its inflation target.
India’s GDP growth rate fell unexpectedly to 5.4 per cent in the July-September quarter, its slowest pace in seven quarters, while inflation in November was well over the RBI’s medium-term target of 4 per cent.
If realized, the country's full-year inflation would average 3.2 percent, well within the Marcos administration's target of 2.0 percent to 4.0 percent for 2024. In 2023, inflation averaged 6.0 percent, ...
... nationwide trends, is closely watched by policymakers for clues on how much progress Japan is making toward durably meeting the BOJ's 2-percent inflation target — a prerequisite for more rate hikes.
2024 inflation seen hitting target at 3.2%. Over to business, inflation could hit 2.3-3.1 percent this month and bring the full-year average to a within-target 3.2 percent, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said on Friday.
Even though inflation has come closer to the central bank’s target of 2%, it remains stubbornly above that mark and worries about it heating up again have tempered the forecast for more interest rate cuts.
Even though inflation has come closer to the central bank's target of 2%, it remains stubbornly above that mark and worries about it heating up again have tempered the forecast for more interest rate cuts.
Even though inflation has come closer to the central bank’s target of 2%, it remains stubbornly above that mark and worries about it heating up again have tempered the forecast for more interest rate cuts.
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