Name three (3) policy tools that a Central bank can use to constrain the rate of inflation and explain how one (1) of these works in accomplishing its objective.

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Name three (3) policy tools that a Central bank can use to constrain the rate of inflation and explain how one (1) of these works in accomplishing its objective.

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The central bank of any country can decrease the money supply (contractionary monetary policy) to reduce or constrain inflation. The various policy tools used by the apex bank i.e. The Central bank for achieving this are:

  1. Increasing Bank rate or Discount rate
  2. Open market operations-Sale of securities
  3. Increasing the CRR( Cash Reserve Ratio)

 

 

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