The central bank has been raising interest rates as part of a contractionary monetary policy to curb inflation, which has remained above 9 percent for more than two and a half years.

MW: So let’s talk about monetary policy. You joined six months ago, well after the inflation shock. It was a fairly big surprise to most. It wasn’t so much of a surprise to me.

National Bank of Romania (NBR) decided today to keep the monetary policy interest rate at 6.50 percent per annum, while maintaining the interest rate on the lending facility (Lombard) at 7.50 percent ...

Stagflation is one of the trickiest economic situations, because tackling inflation requires contractionary monetary policy while low growth calls for expansionary policy. Dealing with one will ...

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Abdeen is one of millions of Syrians suffering from Syria's liquidity crisis, which coincided almost immediately with the fall of Bashar Al-Assad's regime in early December. Experts say the new ...

As the economy seeks to bounce back from years of troubles, with the rate of inflation still at double digits, Bangladesh’s central bank has decided to continue with a contractionary monetary policy ...

CBN has consistently maintained a contractionary or dear monetary policy. The Bank has continually increased the Monetary Policy Rate, MPR, to fight inflation.

In Ricardo’s time there was belief that corn imports were causing monetary instability, which he pointed out was not correct. Due to mis-understandings about the cause of depreciation, Finance ...

The Bangladesh Bank (BB) recently announced its decision to keep the policy rate unchanged at 10% for the January–June period of 2025, signalling a continued focus on curbing inflation. The central ...

Reflecting the challenging inflation outlook, for the third quarter of 2026, the horizon most influenced by current monetary policy decisions, the central bank projected 12-month inflation of 4.0%.

He previously served as deputy director in the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Policy Development and Review Department and was active in staff formulation of IMF policies. Mr.