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    Inflation and Indonesia

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    factors for every country. It plays a vital role in Indonesia growth rate. It is a developing country so they have good inflow of FDI. It was $67.3 billion in 2008 compare to $58.96 billion in 2007 and they are on 45th position in FDI stock. Inflation rates: Inflation rate is still high

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    INFLATION Nowadays, inflation is a word very often used by society. In many cases, citizens can’t really define inflation and when they do so, they define other economic terms that can get confused with inflation. Citizens don’t know of the importance of inflation and how it can affect them directly. Inflation is caused by an imbalance of demand and supply, where prices of the goods and services increase at an ongoing pace. The purchasing power will drop, and the money citizens have will be worth

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    Inflation is the rate in which the prices and services are rising above zero percent, which involves a declining value in the power of currency. While deflation is when the inflation rate goes below zero, making it a negative inflation rate. “Inflation has a direct impact on the investment environment; a rising or declining inflation rate can shift the balance of investment returns between stock, bonds, and other alternatives” (Little, 2010). An economy having zero inflation will eventually result

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    Rising Inflation in the UK

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    Inflation; ‘a situation in which prices rise in order to keep up with increased production costs… result[ing] [in] the purchasing power of money fall[ing]’ (Collin:101) is quickly becoming a problem for the government of the United Kingdom in these post-recession years. The economic recovery, essential to the wellbeing of the British economy, may be in jeopardy as inflation continues to rise, reducing the purchasing power of the public. This, in turn, reduces demand for goods and services, and could

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    Inflation In San Jose

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    According to Chapter 17 of Real Estate Principles by Charles J. Jacobus, the main reason rent control is used today is to protect against inflation. But what happens when inflation is not a huge problem anymore? Will rent control still be effective? A study was performed in San Jose about their 1979 rent control ordinance which showed that the ordinance did little to actually restrain rent. The current ordinance allows for a tenant’s rent to increase 8% per year if the unit was built before 1980

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    (Figure 2). As the world recession spread out, inflation rate in Vietnam kept increasing dramatically, reaching the peak in July 2008. In April 2008, the eight policy packages issued by the Government was implemented, including tight monetary policy, interest rate controls, etc. to curb inflationary expectations and to stabilize the economy (Thanh, 2008). Afterwards, month-on-month inflation seemed to decline, particularly since September 2008, however, inflation still remains high and many enterprises

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    Renting Vs Inflation

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    There are various economical and political reasons, which play a role in the rise of inflation but it all comes down to the decrease of money's purchasing power. It means that tomorrow you will have to pay more money than how much you pay for an item now. Therefore, rent keeps on increasing with the passage of time, as the value of real estate

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    AID OF DIAGRAMS, ILLUSTRATE THE CAUSES OF INFLATION AND DEFLATION, AND BY COMPARING THEIR ECONOMIC EFFECTS CONSIDER HOW BOTH CAN AFFECT THE CORPORATE SECTOR. The essay will describe causes of inflation and deflation and explain how they can affect the corporate sector. 1. INTRODUCTION DEFINITION OF INFLATION AND DEFLATION Inflation is a process in which the price level is rising and money is losing value. (Parkin, Powell, Matthews p654) Inflation tends to rise when at the current price

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    investigate the existence of trade-off relationship between inflation rate and unemployment rate in Namibian economy between 1991 and 2014 the perspective of Phillips curve by using the Ordinal Least Square (OLS) method. The results of Augmented Dickey-Fuller test shows that all variables are stationary at level and the integration test shows that they integrated at level I(0). The analysis result shows the negative relationship between inflation rate and unemployment rate in short-run as it was expected

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    1.1 The inflation definition and influences Inflation is general defined as the devaluation of the currency with the comprehensive and continued rising price level, which means the purchase of money is persistent declining (James and Charles 1975). And this is generally considered as the result of the amount of money in circulation more than the actual needs of the economy. It will directly leads to the devaluation of paper money. If the income of residents do not change, then the living standard

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