Iceland and the International Monetary Fund Intent. The conditionalities include details of Banking Sector restructuring, changes to Fiscal Policy including government austerity and changes to exchange rate policies. Following the global financial crisis in 2007-2008 Iceland's banking sector collapsed leading to wide ranging unemployment and a lessening of support for the Icelandic currency - the Icelandic Krona ISK. This was triggered by an insolvency of the private banking sector. The largest Icelandic banks had liabilities in excess of 80 percent of GDP . Iceland requested assistance from the IMF and from its Nordic partners in the Nordic Council. The goal of Iceland in this market intervention
Monetary policy of the Philippines resulting high inflation, or from growing too slowly, resulting in high unemployment. The primary objective of BSP's monetary policy is to promote price stability because it has the sole ability to influence the amount of money circulating in the economy. In doing so, other economic goals, such as promoting financial stability and achieving broad-based, sustainable economic growth, are given consideration in policy decision-making. In the past, the BSP followed the monetary aggregate targeting approach to monetary policy. This approach is based on the assumption that there is a stable and predictable relationship between money, output and inflation. In particular, all