The contribution that monetary policy can make towards the attainment of maximum economic development and the creation of more employment opportunities is, after all, limited to the intermediate goal of maintaining a stable financial environment. Attempts to use monetary policy for wider purposes or, more directly, to solve problems in the real economic sphere are bound to lead to an inflationary dead end.
Our intentions are geared not only to raising awareness of the costs involved, but also provoking changes. Payment habits can be changed most quickly in the field of public administration provided that there is a supportive political will. A country like ours, a country with relatively low per-capita GDP and a not insignificant hidden economy, cannot afford to delay reducing the use of cash.