Inflation targeting, employment creation and economic development: assessing the impacts and policy alternatives

Gerald Epstein and Erinc Yeldan

International Review of Applied Economics, 2008, vol. 22, issue 2, 131-144

Abstract: Inflation targeting (IT) has recently become the dominant monetary policy prescription for both developing and industrialized countries alike. Emerging market governments, in particular, are increasingly pressured to follow IT as part of their International Monetary Fund (IMF)-led stabilization packages and the routine rating procedures of the international finance institutions. However, the common expectation of IT promoters that price stability would ultimately lead to higher employment and sustained growth has failed to materialize. Generally, the current growth patterns of the world economy are too concentrated and uneven to generate sufficient capital investment and reduce unemployment. To contribute to the task of designing a more socially desirable macroeconomic policy environment, we offer concrete country case studies that devise viable alternatives to inflation targeting central bank policies in order to promote employment, sustained growth and improved income distribution.

Keywords: inflation targeting; central banks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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