The Uruguayan Central Bank’s decision to hike interest rates by 25bps is unlikely to do much to tackle stubbornly high inflation. Strong price pressures are largely due to structural rigidities in the domestic economy, which limit the effectiveness of monetary tightening. What’s more, by acting as a magnet for foreign capital inflows, higher rates may end up aggravating the very problem they seek to address.
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