Statement on Monetary Policy February 2017

The Statement on Monetary Policy sets out the Bank's assessment of current economic conditions, both domestic and international, along with the outlook for Australian inflation and output growth. A number of boxes on topics of special interest are also published. The Statement is issued four times a year.

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• Overview
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• International Economic Developments
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• International and Foreign Exchange Markets
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• Domestic Economic Conditions
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• Box A: The Pipeline of Residential Dwelling Work
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• Box B: Underemployment and Labour Market Spare Capacity
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• Domestic Financial Markets
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• Inflation
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• Economic Outlook
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• List of graphs
• List of tables

The material in this Statement on Monetary Policy was finalised on 9 February 2017.

Some graphs in this publication were generated using Mathematica.

The chapter previously called ‘Price and Wage Developments’ is now entitled ‘Inflation’.

ISSN 1448–5133 (Print)
ISSN 1448–5141 (Online)