Sentence examples for achieved inflation from inspiring English sources

Thus far, the BoJ has achieved inflation of no more than 1.5%, excluding the effect of the consumption-tax rise, and as the impact of a weak yen abated in the middle of the year, price indices started to head downwards again.

Mr. Kuroda said, however, that the "scale and scope" of the Bank of Japan's asset purchases had so far not been enough to achieve inflation and that it would be natural for the central bank to buy longer-term bonds.

The Maastricht treaty and its subsequent clarifications decreed a highly independent central bank with a mission to achieve inflation of less than 2%, together with a fiscal "stability pact" (of uncertain status) to keep budget deficits small.

In a statement announcing the new policy, Draghi said that it was intended to last until September of 2016, but he added that it "will in any case be conducted until we see a sustained adjustment in the path of inflation which is consistent with our aim of achieving inflation rates below, but close to, 2%." In other words, the program is open-ended.

At the moment the central bank is buying €60bn of government bonds and other securities each month "We have always said our purchases would run beyond end-September 2016 in case we do not see a sustained adjustment in the path of inflation that is consistent with our aim of achieving inflation rates below but close to 2 per cent," Mr Draghi said.

This time there was no need to read any tea leaves: the BoJ simply said it "will achieve" inflation of 2% in about two years' time.The bank's previous governor, Masaaki Shirakawa, shied away from the risks associated with such monetary easing.

Voters in many countries have favoured politicians who have achieved low inflation.

By the E.C.B.'s definition, price stability is achieved when inflation is just below 2 percent.

And indeed given our current very low wages growth, there is some speculation that lower unemployment could be achieved before inflation starts letting rip.

The Bank of Japan's governor, Masaaki Shirakawa, said that the easing measures would stay in place until Japan achieved an inflation level of at least 1 percent.

Last month, the government and central bank promised to work together on monetary policies until Japan achieved 2 percent inflation, a lofty goal for the country, which has been mired for more than a decade in deflation, a damaging decline in prices.