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Contributors working at the International Monetary Fund present 14 chapters on the development of monetary policy over the past quarter century through the lens of the evolution of inflation-forecast targeting. They describe the principles and practices of inflation-forecast targeting, including managing expectations, the implementation of a forecasting and policy analysis system, monetary operations, monetary policy and financial stability, financial conditions, and transparency and communications; aspects of inflation-forecast targeting in Canada, the Czech Republic, India, and the US; and monetary policy challenges faced by low-income countries and how inflation-forecast targeting can provide an anchor in countries with different economic structures and circumstances.

Monetary policy. --- Monetary management --- Economic policy --- Currency boards --- Money supply --- Banks and Banking --- Finance: General --- Inflation --- Money and Monetary Policy --- Production and Operations Management --- Price Level --- Deflation --- Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects --- Monetary Policy --- Banks --- Depository Institutions --- Micro Finance Institutions --- Mortgages --- Macroeconomics: Production --- General Financial Markets: Government Policy and Regulation --- Macroeconomics --- Banking --- Monetary economics --- Finance --- Currency --- Foreign exchange --- Inflation targeting --- Central bank policy rate --- Output gap --- Prices --- Monetary policy --- Financial services --- Production --- Real interest rates --- Interest rates --- Banks and banking --- Economic theory --- Financial services industry --- Canada