DMPQ: What is a monetary policy? What are its types? List down the objectives of monetary policies.

Monetary policy is made by the central bank to manage money supply to achieve specific goals- such as constraining inflation, maintaining an appropriate exchange rate , generating jobs etc.

There are basically two types of monetary policies. They are expansionary and contractionary.

Expansionary: This means increase in the total supply of money in the economy . while contractionary policy means decrease in the total money supply.

Following are the objectives of Monetary policies:

To give push to the economy.
To achieve price stability
Employment generation
Exchange rate stabilisation
Balancing saving and investment

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