As these Tables show, real gross domestic product grew at progressively increasing rates throughout this period: from an average rate of 0.2 per cent during 1990-1994 to an average rate of 5.2 per cent during the most recent period.
Indeed, this evolution has gone so far that the actual practice of monetary policy by inflation-targeting central banks now closely resembles the practice of those central banks, such as the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan, and the Federal Reserve, that have not chosen to adopt that paradigm.