EXCLUSIVE: Ghana’s Amissah-Arthur defends inflation targeting

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Criticism of inflation targeting on grounds that it is too narrow and limited fails to acknowledge the legwork done by central banks in using the framework, Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur, the governor of the Bank of Ghana, told CentralBanking.com on Monday.

"I started out as a sceptic, because I thought it was too narrowly focused, and developing countries should have other indices that they look at, but I'm becoming a convert," Amissah-Arthur said, speaking in Basel during the Bank for

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