DIRECT MONETIZATION
Printing of the currency has its association with the increase in inflation. Because if everyone has more money, prices go up instead. Increasing demand will increase the rate of inflation over time . This happened recently in Zimbabwe, in Africa, and in Venezuela, in South America, when these countries printed more money to try to make their economies grow. Monetizing the deficit is when the RBI directly purchases government bonds (G-Secs) from the primary market to help the Centre’s expenditure. In turn, the RBI prints more money to finance this debt. In other words, monetization of deficit happens when RBI buys government securities directly from the primary market to fund government’s expenses. When the printing of currency for a longer period of time, resulted into the “hyperinflation”. When Zimbabwe was hit by hyperinflation, in 2008, prices rose as much as 231,000,000% in a single year. To get sustained , a country has to make and sell more things – whether goods or