The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and national and international economic developments.
Yan Carriere-Swallow, Luis I. Jacome H., Nicolas Magud, and Alejandro Werner
Publisher:
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Published Date:
September 2016
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781475543353.001
ISBN:
9781475543353
ISSN:
1018-5941
Page:
0
Latin America's central banks have made substantial progress towards delivering an environment of price stability that is supportive of sustainable economic growth. We review these achievements, and discuss remaining challenges facing central banking in the region. Where inflation remains high and volatile, achieving durable price stability will require making central banks more independent. Where inflation targeting regimes are well-established, remaining challenges surround assessments of economic slack, the communication of monetary policy, and clarifying the role of the exchange rate. Finally, macroprudential policies must be coordinated with existing objectives, and care taken to preserve the primacy of price stability.
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