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“The primary task of a central
bank is to safeguard the country’s standard value – i.e. the currency. Banks throughout the world
do so with varying degrees of success. The notion exists, never tested empirically, that central banks with the greatest degree of independence are the ones that are better able to control the growth of monetary aggregates and hence the rate of inflation.”
Business Day, Editorial, 9 June 1989