The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recently urged Ghana to maintain a tight monetary policy stance to combat inflation and stabilise the economy. However, this recommendation has sparked ...

Stubborn inflation, a tight jobs market and weak productivity thwarted interest rate relief in 2024. The Financial Review’s economist survey predicts that will change in May.

Analysts at Coronation Research anticipate that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will maintain a tight monetary policy stance as the country moves into 2025. The analysts who stated this in their ...

citing how deposit and lending rates have risen for changes in the policy rate. Mujeri suggested that other than augmenting its tight monetary stance, Bangladesh Bank has to find out the reasons ...

In his December press conference, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the central bank was embarking on a "new phase" of monetary policymaking. Just what that entails will play out over the next ...

Given the disposition of the apex bank, monetary conditions may remain tight in 2025 ... given the high Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) and Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR). In his 2024 economic review ...

contractionary monetary policy stance. The analysts stated this while reacting to latest data released by the apex bank, which shows that the total FX inflow into the Nigerian economy increased by 40 ...

As gathered by THISDAY, CBN increased the interest rate during its NTBs auction in 2024 amid efforts to woo the investing public. Maintain Tight Monetary Policy to Check Inflation, IMF Tells CBN IMF ...

India’s government partly blamed the central bank’s tight monetary policy for the economy’s weak performance and said growth will likely improve in the second half of the fiscal year as demand picks ...

We believe a key gauge of efficacy in 2025 will be the ability of fiscal policy ... tight”, even floating the possibility of another rate cut at the Feb. 20 meeting of the Monetary Board.

but that such a policy may be quite risky when economic activity is strong and large shocks drive inflation well above target. Moreover, our model implies that the economic costs of "going the last ...