Sentences with phrase «macroeconomic policy settings»

The pace of growth in the US has picked up over recent months, assisted by very expansionary macroeconomic policy settings and supportive financial conditions.

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Setting aside the conceptual question of whether sound money is a form of freedom, an institution, or simply good macroeconomic policy, we come to the second major problem with the Fraser and Heritage price stability measures.

Lucy Macdonald is also a member of the firm's Global Policy Council, which is responsible for setting company - wide macroeconomic and strategic pPolicy Council, which is responsible for setting company - wide macroeconomic and strategic policypolicy.

Mr. Speaker, based on our policy objective of ensuring macroeconomic stability, and growing the economy for job creation, whilst protecting social spending, the following macroeconomic targets are set for the 2018 fiscal year: • Overall GDP growth rate of 6.8 percent; • Non-oil GDP growth rate of 5.4 percent; • End period inflation rate of 8.9 percent; • Average inflation rate of 9.8 percent; • Fiscal deficit of 4.5 % percent GDP; • Primary balance (surplus) of 1.6 percent of GDP; and • Gross Foreign Assets to cover at least 3.5 months of imports of goods and services

Mr. Speaker, consistent with our medium - term development policy framework, we have set the following macroeconomic targets for the medium term (2018 - 2021): • Real GDP to grow at an average rate of 6.2 percent between 2018 and 2020; • Inflation to stay within the target band of 8 ± 2 %; • Overall fiscal deficit to remain within the fiscal rule of 3 - 5 percent; • Primary balance expected to improve from a surplus of 0.2 percent of GDP in 2017 and remain around 2.0 percent in the medium term; and • Gross International Reserves to cover at least 4 months of imports.

This is a good answer, but I would add: The phrase «trickle - down economics», even as a simplistic political slogan to refer to a complex set of macroeconomic policies, really only refers to one element of supply - side economics (namely, the Laffer Curve).

Never in the history of economics has a global macroeconomic problem presented itself with such a clear and unambiguous set of policy solutions.