Economic Growth- Please write the definition Inflation- Rising prices across the board. Inflation means less bang for your buc‚ as it erodes the purchasing power of a unit of currency. Inflation usually refers to CONSUMER PRICES. Therefore the goal of MONETARY POLICY in many countries is to ensure that inflation is neither too high or too low. The present growth rate of our country has dropped to nearly three and a half year low of 5.5%. India’s GDP growth for the 1st quarter of the current
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Causes and Remedies of Inflation in India Inflation by definition involves rise in prices of goods and services. Inflation is usually caused by demand outstripping supply of goods and services. It can also be caused by suppliers/traders of certain goods and services (or speculators in goods) hiking their prices in order to effectively increase their profits/incomes. Such attempts to increase their incomes/profits may also be‚ in many cases‚ through hoarding or speculation
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Background Developed countries such as South Korea‚ Taiwan‚ Hong Kong‚ and Singapore rely on their commodity export as their main economy boosters. Even when the economy situation goes bad‚ these countries still can achieve surplus trade balance. Boosting economy through commodity export‚ like what Japan has done‚ has become popular among developing countries like Indonesia. As an archipelagic country‚ Indonesia has infinite fishery potential. It is because Indonesia area is dominated by watery/
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Unemployment and inflation are two intricately linked economic concepts. Over the years there have been a number of economists trying to interpret the relationship between the concepts of inflation and unemployment. There are two possible explanations of this relationship – one in the short term and another in the long term. In the short term there is an inverse correlation between the two. As per this relation‚ when the unemployment is on the higher side‚ inflation is on the lower side and the inverse
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reduced. population growth rate permanently increased due to increased immigration Immigration raises n from n1 to n2. The rise in n lowers steady-state k‚ leading to a lower steady-state consumption per worker. c. A temporary rise in s has no effect on the steady-state equilibrium. d. The increase in the labor force participation rate does not affect the growth rate of the labor force‚ so there is no impact on the steady-state capital-labor ratio or on consumption per worker. However‚ because
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"Unemployment and Inflation" Please respond to the following: • Predict whether the years following the next presidential election will bring us inflation‚ deflation‚ or relatively stable prices. Provide support for your response. I believe the prices will relatively remain stable‚ but overtime there will be inflation‚ and this is to pay for government funded programs and to pay for the offset costs associated with new laws and regulations governing healthcare. With the current fiscal cliff
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Inflation in India There is hardly a thing or commodity whose price has not gone up in the recent times. Rise in prices has become a common feature in India and the people are reconciled to this fact. Rise in prices is called inflation. There are various factors that contribute to this rise in prices. Some are natural factors like unfavorable weather conditions which affect the food production and lead to the shortage of commodities in the market. With more money chasing fewer goods‚ the prices
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ABOUT THE INDUSTRY FMCG Sector in India Description: FMCG industry‚ alternatively called as CPG (Consumer packaged goods) industry primarily deals with the production‚ distribution and marketing of consumer packaged goods. The Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) are those consumables which are normally consumed by the consumers at a regular interval. Some of the prime activities of FMCG industry are selling‚ marketing‚ financing‚ purchasing‚ etc. The industry also engaged in operations‚ supply chain
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Export Sector in India The export sector of Indian economy made comprehensive progress over the last decade. The exponential growth of the export sector of Indian economy can be attributed to the liberal Government of India economic policy. Indian exports have an ambitious target of US 160 billion in 2007-08. The achievement came to the Indian exports in the last fiscal despite the odds against the exports‚ minimizing the gains. In the first two months of 2007-08 exports grew by 20.3%‚ which was
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perception of INFLATION in Europe Jorge Yébenes Lorena Zamora UEK 2012 INTRODUCTION Definition of Inflation Inflation is the phenomenon that consists of continued and general growth on the price of goods and services in an economy in a certain period of time. It doesn’t follow a cyclical cause and does not affect either not an individual or a few. How can we measure the “inflation”? To measure inflation‚ we use a "general index‚" a ratio‚ percentage expression. We call it Inflation rate which
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