Vietnam faces more price hikes despite inflation woes Vietnam’s government is set to raise electricity prices by 15% on Tuesday‚ at a time when the population is already struggling with a soaring cost of living. Last week the Vietnamese government also raised the retail prices of oil products by as much as 24%. In February‚ inflation hit a two-year high of 12.31%. Analysts say despite the government’s measures to tighten monetary policy‚ price pressures are likely to continue. "The increases
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INFLATIONUNEMPLOYMENT AND INFLATION Student: ___________________________________________________________________________ 1. Inflation caused by a rise in per unit production costs is referred to as: A. Cost-push inflation B. Demand-pull inflation C. Unanticipated inflation D. Hyperinflation 2. The view that unions may be a source of inflation would be best associated with the: A. Supply-shock view of inflation B. Cost-push view of inflation C. Wage-push view of inflation D. Demand-pull view
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Inflation Targeting Guillermo Ortiz Martínez INTRODUCTION This paper discusses several issues regarding inflation targeting to illustrate how this well-known framework has influenced the implementation of monetary policy in several economies‚ particularly in emerging markets. It also discusses some of the challenges ahead. Over the years‚ it has been clearly accepted that one of the contributions of inflation targeting has been its provision of a framework within which to systematically
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and inflation The number of people out of work fell by 14‚000 to 2.5 million in the three months to December 2012 (ONS).The unemployment rate was 7.8%‚ of the economically active population‚ down 0.1% on July to September 2012. A few months after the start of the recession in 2008‚ unemployment started to rise sharply. When the global financial crisis hit‚ the unemployment rate was a little over 5% or 1.6 million. Towards the end of 2009‚ with the UK coming out of its severest recession since the
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Food inflation Definition: - Food inflation can be defined as a consistent rise in the price level of all agricultural food items. This rise in price level is neither seasonal nor sudden‚ it keeps on increasing over a period of time. This is one of the biggest problem faced by the economy. Causes of food inflation * Due to lack of post harvesting infrastructure such as cold chains‚ transportation‚ and storage facilities. * High food inflation ensures that consumers have to cut back on their
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Inflation Investigation Economists say that inflation refers to as a continual rise in the general level of prices. An increase in the general level of prices for goods and services will cause a decrease in the purchasing power of the currency. While inflation is defined as an increase in the level of prices‚ not all of these prices necessarily change by the same proportion or even in the same direction. FIND AN EXAMPLE Because of this‚ inflation affects the distribution of real income and wealth
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3.1 Introduction There are various ways for the employees to voice out their dissatisfaction. One of the ways is by using picketing. Under section 40 of Industrial Relation Act allow workers to attend at or near their workplace when they have a trade dispute. The purpose of picketing are communicate issues to the public and embrass the employers. Picketing also held at lunch time‚ and before or after working hours. Picketing is enforceable by law as long as it must not intimidate anyone‚must not
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seen in the graph above‚ during 2009 the growth rate of Indonesia’s GDP fell harder than any of the years before 2008 (reaching a year lowest of -3.57 in growth.) The economic crisis in 1998 hit Indonesia quite severely. It was expected that inflation rate would rise between 80% - 100% at the end of the year in comparison with only a 10% increase during the years of high economic growth. During the 1998 crisis‚ Indonesia’s GDP decreased by 12%. The crisis was caused by the sudden withdrawal
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The effects of inflation will depend partly on whether it is ‘anticipated’ or ‘unanticipated’ inflation. The Impact also depends on the levels of inflation; high levels are more damaging than low levels. Inflation can cause a number of problem for an economy‚ such as the following: • If prices are increasing this creates costs for firms because they may have to update menus‚ price lists‚ brochures‚ and other materials when prices change in an economy to reflect the higher prices. Because this
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Inflation in Russia Inflation in Russia is characterized by the contrast. The most striking example - unreasonably high growth rate of inflation in the medium of the poor and reduce the cost of living for the wealthy strata of the population. Poor in Russia is much more than the rich. Poor mainly acquire essential goods and the high demand for them. Because of this‚ their prices are rising faster and more intense than for other goods. As a result‚ the poor are gradually becoming poorer and the rich
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