This included two interest rate cuts and lowering the amount of of money that banks need to keep in reserve in a bid to boost lending.
At the same time, the RBI has - twice in two months - lowered the amount of money that banks need to keep in reserve to try to boost lending.
The exchange's decision to increase the amount of assets brokers have to keep in reserve against the revolving loans they routinely use to fund trading - known as "badla" - triggered a sharp fall in the market.
With this in mind, and in an effort to stoke up lending, the People's Bank of China has cut the amount of money that banks need to keep in reserve three times in the past few months.
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That may have been what Ayatollah Rafsanjani had in mind when he declared recently that the Islamic Republic needed to keep large funds in reserve.
Most of the 250, 000 Iraqis who died were Shias, not just because Iraq's army reflected the country's 60% Shia majority, but also because its Sunni command tended to keep loyal Sunni troops in reserve.
Others, however such as Britain's Standard Life, which last year was authorised to operate in Tianjin province think that the regulator is right to keep reserve requirements high, in order to protect consumers in this young market.
Keep in mind that a debt reserve fund is usually created at the time of bond issuance, hence, interest payments out of reserves is nothing more than giving the bondholder back his own money.
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Another reason for the delays: Airlines keep too few planes and crew in reserve.
Their deposit-taking more than matches their loan-making, and they keep a fifth of their deposits in reserve at the central bank.
In January, when the Federal Reserve voted to keep interest rates steady, it cited "tentative signs of stabilization" in the housing market.
And Mr Clinton has presided over it sensibly, not least by deciding to keep Alan Greenspan in charge at the Federal Reserve.
Right now, many of the bonds we select for clients mature in less than two years primarily because the Federal Reserve has stated that they plan to keep interest rates near zero until sometime in 2014.
The international press focuses on increases in interest rates and bank reserve ratios, but Chinese officials are relying on more direct measures to keep prices in check.
Countries have been tightening credit and adding macroeconomic measures such as taxes and increased reserve requirements from lenders in order to keep the market in check.
However, should the "barbarous relic" (as John Maynard Keynes mistakenly called it) stay in its current range in the months ahead, keep worrying, because the Federal Reserve will be destructively imitating the Bank of Japan.
Furthermore, Wilson, the only president with a doctorate, tried to use the newly created Federal Reserve system and an elastic money supply to keep inflation in check, but the U.S. still saw double-digit inflation from 1917 to 1920.
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The Federal Reserve also stepped in with massive liquidity programs designed to keep short-term financing flowing.
Members of the Guard and Reserve also serve here at home, stepping in to keep our communities safe when emergencies or natural disasters threaten our security.
We're happy to reserve judgment today, but we'll keep those concerns in the back of our mind when we get the chance to test a final unit (and maybe even watch a whole dang movie).
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O'Gara performed impressively after being introduced in the second half at Twickenham but Kidney has elected to keep faith with Sexton at fly-half, with the Munster man staying in reserve.
"To help support the economic recovery in a context of price stability, the Committee will keep constant the Federal Reserve's holdings of securities at their current level by reinvesting principal payments from agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities in longer-term Treasury securities, " the FOMC says, adding it will continue to roll over the Federal Reserve's holdings of Treasury securities as they mature.
To quickly explain why this view is certainly not ours, consider that our position is that the abnormally high consumption of US households during the 2000s was matched by an abnormally large trade deficit in goods and that feedbacks among, borrowing, consumption, the dollar, US long term rates, foreign reserve accumulation and other factors worked to keep these two effects moving in tandem.
In the U.S., the Federal Reserve has reemphasized its commitment to keep interest rates low until 2014.
At the 25-acre (10 hectare) Coed y Felin nature reserve, in Flintshire, the charity arranged volunteers to control the scrub and keep the site open.
Last month, India's central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) lowered the amount of money that banks need to keep in reserves in a bid to boost lending.
Monday's decline in oil prices follows the release of a transcript of the Federal Reserve's December meeting showing that policymakers disagreed over how long to keep a bond-purchase program in place.
The Federal Reserve, which uses the core inflation rate to decide its policy in creating economic conditions that will keep inflation at a low level and create jobs, may be worried now that the consumer now may now begin spending less and saving more as food and gas prices rise.
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