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Monetisation (of public debt) [r]: A government's sale of its own securities to the country's central bank in order to obtain funds that are used to redeem its public debt - resulting in an expansion of the bank's monetary base, and consequently of the country's money supply.

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	a government's sale of its own securities to the country's central bank in order to obtain funds that are used to redeem its public debt - resulting in an expansion of the bank's ''monetary base'', and consequently of the country's [[money supply]].		A government's sale of its own securities to the country's [[central bank]] in order to obtain funds that are used to redeem its public debt - resulting in an expansion of the bank's [[monetary base]], and consequently of the country's [[money supply]].