Inflation In Zimbabwe Essay

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nflation is an increase in the average level of prices .There are a lot of causes of inflation and it affects the lives of the people in a country.

In the past decade ,Zimbabwe faced the most difficult challenges since 2000 the economy did not perform very and this led to hyperinflation .There are factors which led the rate of inflation to increase very rapidly in Zimbabwe at that time and some of them were low production capacity ,droughts ,sanctions imposed of the government by the developed states and poor economic policies .In the year 2000 ,the inflation was a 2 figure but in June 2008 it was more than 11 000 000 %.

Zimbabwe economy was based on agriculture ,mining ,manufacturing and mining .In the year 2000 , government launched

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