The policies that a country should adopt to close a deflationary gap 

The policies that a country should adopt to close a deflationary gap 

  • Fiscal policy: the government should reduce taxes on people’s personal income so that they are left with enough disposable income to spend.
  • The government should increase her expenditure on social services so as to increase the amount of money in the circulation which leads to increase in aggregate demand.
  • There is a need to reduce the interest rates so that people can be encouraged to borrow for consumption which increases aggregate demand
  • Government should increase wages as well as encouraging trade unions to demand increases in wages from private institutions to increase aggregate demand
  • The government should encourage tourist and immigrants into the country to increase aggregate demand.
  • The government should encourage export of excess output to reduce on the aggregate supply and the earnings to increase aggregate demand
  • The government should control political instability so that people are encouraged to work and earn incomes to increase aggregate demand
  • Adopt expansionary monetary policy: the government through the central bank print or issue more currency to increase the level of aggregate demand.
  • Discourage imports which tend to increase aggregate supply and reduce aggregate demand for domestic good and service
  • Encourage subsidies, the consumer can be offered subsidies to increase their levels of consumption thereby increasing aggregate demand.
  •  Reducing direct taxes on incomes of the people.  This increases their deposable incomes hence increasing aggregate demand in the economy.
  • Improvement in the infrastructure for example transport network to ease movement of surpluses through arbitrage
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