Central Banks Lack Tools To Boost Inflation, Raghuram Rajan Says
Central banks across the globe lack the tools to boost inflation, according to Raghuram Rajan. The former Reserve Bank of India Governor was speaking to Bloomberg at the Hoover Institute Conference in Stanford, California.
“We are in a new world,” he said adding, earlier the fight for central banks was against high inflation.
Unfortunately, we have the opposite problem now that inflation in many cases is a little too low. The central banks want to boost inflation but we don't have the tools that allow us to do that in a reliable way.Raghuram Rajan, Former Governor, RBI
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