The central bank's monetary policy targets the federal-funds rate, which banks charge each other on overnight loans.
Departments will get extra cash only in return for specific policy targets.
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Big cash injections by central banks had helped offset the worst effects of this cash hoarding, bringing overnight lending rates down toward policy targets.
Speaking on Monday, he said he was also "sceptical" of alternative monetary policy targets to price stability, such as gross domestic product targeting, since any, even temporary, loosening of inflation expectations would "poison" central bank credibility.
Critics argue that stop and frisk policy disproportionately targets people of color, particularly blacks and Latinos.
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Suddenly there is the glimpse of a looser monetary policy, of targets relaxed and of debt being mutualised.
The portal targets policy-makers, researchers and civil society from Southeast Europe.
Companies need to state clearly what they are tying to achieve with their compensation policy, what targets executives are expected to meet and what the rewards will be for hitting those targets.
Although policy frameworks and strategic targets for the enhancement of women's careers in media have been shown to produce positive results in a number of settings, the increasingly global and commercial structures of media institutions do not sit easily with the adoption of gender sensitive measures.
Although those targets were rarely met, Policy Exchange says councils have used their new control over planning to drastically cut their own homebuilding targets.
Population growth will of course factor in as countries translate these general global targets into national policy.
Historically, the emergence of modern medicine coincided with the rise of activist government in the U.S. Both had their roots in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and the health-related industries became prime targets for utopian policy-makers intent on safeguarding the public from insecurity and harm.
Adams has been a vocal critic of the policy, and believes it unfairly targets minorities.
The yen has been weakening on expectations the prime minister who took office late last year will push for inflation targets and other monetary policy designed to weaken the yen.
Liberal Democrat Alison McInnes warned the Government would need to "hit every single policy" in order to meet its targets.
As noted earlier, the board has no statutory impact whatsoever on Medicare payment rates and policy during the years when the spending targets are being met.
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In particular, observers look for Fed officials to discuss what to do when the program known as Operation Twist ends, as well as to discuss setting numerical targets to signal how long policy-setters will keep the target federal funds rate at essentially zero.
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Though monetary policy in many countries is governed by inflation targets, central bankers must keep a weather eye on the currency.
Inside the government, a lively argument is going on about whether a surfeit of numerical targets can have perverse effects on policy.
Incoming Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke may do what his predecessor wouldn't do for 18 years--establish transparent guidelines and targets for the conduct of monetary policy.
For example, in New Zealand, the central bank governor's job and rumored bonus are dependent on achieving numerical inflation targets, which are set by policy-makers in a transparent process.
The European Commission has not announced a U-turn, or that it got the policy wrong, it is just regularly easing targets for countries like Spain, Greece, Ireland, Portugal and France.
As far as fixing the problem, it helps that governments are moving toward harnessing alternative energy resources in order to tackle climate change--but the time line for meeting international climate-change targets by 2020 and beyond means policy changes are too gentle, the group says.
Those outside the euro zone are trying hard to meet its deficit targets, limiting any scope for fiscal policy.
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Prodded by the gas shortages, fearful of a power crunch and constrained by its own carbon targets, Labour has abandoned its previous policy of benign neglect.
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"While we welcome the areas where progress to meet targets has been made, we share the concerns that the UK CCC latest report flags up of 'considerable uncertainty' in the Scottish government's draft climate plan and the need to increase the rate of policy implementation if we are to deliver our climate targets, " Mr Ballantine said.
French economic policy is hemmed in by a fiscal pact where deficit targets are set in Brussels.
They say that more clarity is needed over the government's long-term policy, particularly how it will achieve stringent C02 reduction targets.
Some members of the Fed's policy-setting committee want it to publish additional economic targets, such as an unemployment rate, which would guide interest rates.
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