The Central Bank has supported the direct payment business and the Russians
The Central Bank supports direct budgetary payments to citizens And businesses in the current fall of coronavirus, said the head of the regulator Elvira Nabiullina on the online press conference.
"Loans, interest rates - they have value, but currently people are more important direct support. And we are seeing that business And citizens are afraid of increase in future credit its load, " - said Nabiullina.
She said that the government uses such events, gives grants, increases unemployment, pay money to particularly needy, assisting families.
Nabiullina urged not to confuse these measures with the So-called helicopter money. In her expressions, no one in the world has not yet applied these measures, although they are discussed.
The term "helicopter money" put an expert on the economy Of the USA Milton Friedman in his work of 1969. Then he compared the direct payments of government money to citizens throwing banknotes from a helicopter. This support measure is currently used, for example, in the United States And Japan.
Thus, the American head of Donald trump on March 27, signed the law on allocation of 2, 2 trillion dollars to stimulate the economy against the backdrop of a pandemic coronavirus. Of which 300 billion are intended for direct payments working Americans in lump support.
The idea of "helicopter money," said the head of Sberbank German Gref. According to his statement, to apply it in Russia will not work because of lack of resources.
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