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In India and Russia, the target rate is 4%.
Egypt has set a target of 13%, plus or minus 3%, for this year.
It is worth translating these annual inflation targets to longer-term inflation, assuming that the target is not changed in coming years.
In his influential 1998 book Inflation Targeting, Ben Bernanke and his co-authors advised policymakers to announce a target inflation rate because it “communicates the central bank’s intentions,” which would “reduce uncertainty.”
But reducing uncertainty about prices by keeping the inflation target at 2% or more might actually increase a sense of uncertainty about real things like home values or investments.
An inflation target of a few percentage points may seem to promote stability, and perhaps it really does.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been a favorite target of opponents of austerity for some time now, and it is understandable that, after months of being a bystander to the EU’s painful inability to govern, Germany has reluctantly – indeed, insufficiently – taken charge.
It is a created target.
In the United Kingdom, the new government, led by Prime Minister Theresa May, has dropped the target of eliminating the deficit by the end of the decade.
As the Bosnian war was winding down in 1995, Gligorov was the target of an assassination attempt, a car bombing that killed his driver.
For still others, programs that target the informal sector distort the playing field.
Everything else that has been proposed to save the eurozone in its current form – a central treasury, a monetary authority that does more than target inflation, fiscal harmonization, a new treaty – is a political pipe dream.
So far, the main target of its campaign is the communists, whom Kremlin political operatives hope to destroy in the way they destroyed Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and former Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov, head of the Fatherland party, who were the leading non-communist challengers during Putin's first presidential campaign.
The attack, which killed an estimated 5,000 people and injured up to 10,000 more, remains the largest chemical-weapons attack ever to target a civilian population.
Contrary to expectations, however, the increased efficiency implied by target identification has not increased productivity.
Efforts to address the problem have focused on how the target was selected, the candidate drugs’ efficacy in humans, the risk of undesirable side effects, and the efficiency of the discovery process – all to little or no avail.
This creates a dilemma for major central banks – beginning with the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank – attempting to phase out unconventional monetary policies: they have secured higher growth, but are still not hitting their target of a 2% annual inflation rate.
If, however, the shock is permanent, central banks should ease monetary conditions; otherwise, they will never be able to reach their inflation target.
This is the view taken by the Bank for International Settlements, which argues that it is time to lower the inflation target from 2% to 0% – the rate that can now be expected, given permanent supply shocks.
So, even though central banks aren’t willing to give up on their formal 2% inflation target, they are willing to prolong the timeline for achieving it, as they have already done time and again, effectively conceding that inflation may stay low for longer.
Every government in Europe will have to do the same: target the weakest link in the social protection system, the one most easily understood by most people.
Let us imagine that the world ultimately agrees on an ambitious target.
The advertising business models they chose were leveraged by personalization, which enabled advertisers to target their messages with unprecedented precision.
Yes, there are whispers that the pace of fiscal consolidation could be slowed; indeed, France has already been given more time to hit its deficit target.
As a result, over the last decade, the Chinese authorities’ implicit target for annual inflation and currency appreciation has been only about 3%.
The two countries have set a bilateral trade target of $280 billion for 2015.
Wealth taxes that target land and structures are arguably insulated from some of these concerns, and property taxes are relatively underused outside the Anglo-Saxon countries.
For example, their views on what is a reasonable target for unemployment have shifted over time, and they have not always concentrated as much as they do today on 2% as a reasonable target for inflation.
Without that Cold War imperative, science became an easy target for Kremlin budget cutters.
A committee of the UN General Assembly identified 17 target areas, including the eradication of extreme poverty, ensuring education and health for all, and fighting human-induced climate change.
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