Two objectives of macroeconomics are -
- Full employment
- Price stability
Why government or decision makers try to achieve these two
objectives?
- Full employment - full employment objective is aimsed by the
government due to various social and economic benefits. As at
reaching full employment , government try to eradicate poverty due
to which workers get trained and skilled for the job .Even the
government aims at reaching full employment so that employed people
will have to pay tax which will be the revenue for the government
as well as Economic growth
- Price stability - Through price stability government try to
control both inflation as well as deflation whatever the situation
may be. price stability helps in achieving ecnomic activities as
well as employment through transparency of price mechanism.
key problems which may be encountered when attempting to balance
these two objectives
- Whenever government try to achieve full employment , so the
deficit in full employment end up in increasing the inflation . Due
to which government again has to maintain the price stability
- Sometimes in way of achieving the Target of price stability
Interest rates in long term period will move higher which may cause
interference in investment decision as well as savings
macroeconomic measures, employing fiscal and/or monetary
policies, which could be taken to balance these two objectives are
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- Public Investment as well as infrastructure - sustainable
program for the public investment and infrastructure will help to
create job as well as increase the productivity and economic growth
due to which government moves one step ahead to reach full
employment
- Monetary equlibrium - monetary equlibrium is state at which an
economy is in a situation where Quality demanded is equal to
quantity supplied