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Prepared by:
Vaibhav Shrivastava
Defining Inflation
Deficit financing
Monopolies
Causes of inflation
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Non-monetary factors
•High population growth
•Natural calamities and bad whether
conditions
Measures
Of
Inflation
Inflation is statistically measured in terms of percentage
increase in the price index , as a rate % per unit of time ,
usually in a year or month
CPI-RW-Rural Worker
• The commodity basket for these
indices is derived on the basis of
group- specific consumer
expenditure survey and weight to
each.
Types of Inflation
Causes of DD pull inflation
Stagflation
Maladjustment
Speculation
Business community
Investors
Farmers
Effect on consumption and welfare
Deterioration in savings
Irrationality of consumption
Features of
Inflationary Economy
Continuously rising price trend
Market imperfections
Capital bottleneck
Entrepreneurial bottleneck
Food bottleneck
Infrastructural bottleneck
Resources gap
Global Inflation
and
India
Factors playing major role : Imported inflation and Oil
prices
Policy neglect
Financial speculators
Ineffective strategy
Control of measures
Fiscal measures