Introduction What inflation is? Inflation is an increase in the price of a basket of goods and services that is representative of the economy as a whole. Subsequently‚ it will cause purchasing power fall. In simple terms‚ it means that too much of money is chasing for one particular item. When too much of money is available‚ the seller may raise the price of which he is willing to sell. In the long run‚ inflation has the potential of erasing the purchasing power of the people. It is because when
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Keomorokod‚ Im Meng and Chuop Vichet INFLATION Course Title: Fundamentals of Economics Professor: Meng Channarith April 09‚ 2013 CONTENTS Acknowledgement .....................................................................................................................ii Introduction .............................................................................................................................. iii Chapter One: Nature of inflation ....................................
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analysis of the impact of GDP growth rate and employment rate on inflation. For this purpose data from 1995 to 2008 has been collected and analyzed through OLS technique. The result of the model shows that GDP growth rate and employment rate adequately affect inflation. With the increase in GDP and employment‚ inflation decreases. INTRODUCTION Inflation is a burning issue in Pakistan. It is generally felt that for several years Pakistan has had a double-digit inflation. The public sector has used a
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It is my desire to become a well qualified doctor or a scientist. I do not just wish to be an ordinary doctor who spends his times in his laboratory trying to find out new drugs and medicines to remove the suffering of millions of people. The world remembers with thankfulness the name of the man who gave to the world vaccination. As a doctor it is my real wish to server the badly suffering humanity too. Our country is still under development and it has become necessary for all of us‚ especially
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INFLATION In economics‚ inflation is a rise in the general level of prices of goods and services in an economy over a period of time. When the general price level rises‚ each unit of currency buys fewer goods and services. Consequently‚ inflation also decrease the purchasing power of money. Effects of Inflation on economy 1. Decrease Production: People buying less of goods and services as their income is limited. This leads to slowdown not only in consumption but also production. This is because
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INFLATION It can be stated that Inflation is the rise in prices of products as a result of the increase in the quantity of money. This definition however would be inefficient since for two reasons; 1. If we simply term inflation to be a rise in prices of certain products then we will be mistaken because prices might be rising in one sector of the economy yet falling in another sector. 2. We have to take into account that the process may be high this month but generally fall the following month
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INFLATION The government control measures‚ all over the world‚ keep business cycles under control. What has gone nearly uncontrolled over the time is the problem of almost continuous increase in the general price level (this is the problem of inflation). The problem of inflation got accentuated since the early 1970s. It emerged as the most intractable economic problem for both theoreticians and policy-makeovers all over the world. Inflation has been a common problem of the developed and the developing
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examines the medium term forecasting of inflation rate in Bangladesh. Four important macroeconomic variables which have inter relationship among themselves are considered in the study and three different VEC models are estimated starting from a two-variable model including money supply and CPI‚ and sub-sequentially adding some financial variables such as real GDP and nominal exchange rates. This paper empirically explores the present relationship between inflation and macroeconomic variables in the
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Inflation “Inflation is the rate at which the general level of prices for goods and services is rising‚ and‚ subsequently‚ purchasing power is falling.” Central banks endeavour to put an end to grave inflation‚ along with drastic deflation‚ striving to keep the extravagant growth of prices at the lowest level. For example‚ if there is 5% inflation in a specific country and the price of sugar is usually £3‚ it will spontaneously escalate from £3 to £3.15. Every government’s tries to keep a low
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Explain why there might be rapid economic growth in a country (10m) Economic growth measures the rate of change in the volume of output produced within the economy. It is a key indicator of the nation’s economic wellbeing. Rapid economic growth can be described as economic growth that occurs in a short period of time‚ or at a great speed. A country might experience rapid economic growth due to increases in aggregate demand which lead to actual growth‚ interest rates‚ exchange rates‚ as well as
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