Most monetary policy units sufficiently resourced
Macroeconomic analysis and research duties are officials’ top functions
Monetary policy departments of central banks are broadly content with their staffing and non-staff resources, data from the Monetary Policy Benchmarks 2025 reveals.
Respondents assigned scores on a point scale of 1 to 5 to their divisional staff strength and non-staff resources. The assessment scale progresses from very insufficient (1), insufficient (2), barely insufficient (3), sufficient (4) to very sufficient (5).
The scores given to staffing and non-staff resources each average 3.6. Both
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