Learning objectives
Define inflation and deflation
Explain how inflation is measured with the Consumer Prices Index and calculate the rate of inflation from index numbers
Explain the causes of demand-pull inflation and of cost-push inflation
Analyse how inflation affects savers, lenders and borrowers, and its consequences for consumers, workers, firms and the economy
Discuss the policies a government can use to control inflation and how effective each is likely to be
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