adjective

• Relating to or denoting a policy designed to increase output and employment by changing the conditions under which goods and services are supplied, especially by measures that reduce regulation and taxation.

  Compare with demand-side

  ‘The backlash brought monetarist and supply-side doctrines into prominence.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The most common types of regional policies are supply-side policies, which attempt to improve the environment for local investment by upgrading the quality of the local production factor inputs.’
  • ‘Both concentrate on supply-side policy, using the stick of ‘employability’ as an excuse to downgrade welfare benefits.’
  • ‘Eradication of the plants used as the raw material for narcotics production is one of many supply-side policy options available to governments.’
  • ‘These results question Canada's mass expenditure on supply-side policies.’

  Synonyms

  monetarist