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Nominal demand was rising because people had more paper money. This combination of more money chasing fewer goods caused very rapid rises in price. When there is a shortage — prices rise. Combined with printing more money and this shortage of actual goods, prices rose rapidly.
Price control Ironically, this shortage of supply was made worse by the imposition of price controls. Expectations Zimbabwe had high inflation since the mids. Zimbabwe had the worst of both worlds — prices rising faster than wages and incomes. No credit available. The entire financial system became undermined, banks closed and were unwilling to lend any money. Due to rising prices, the value of debt could be soon wiped out.
But, this meant business and individuals had no access to credit. Normal business activity closed down and investment was cut back. Menu costs. With inflation almost doubling through the day, anyone who received money had to exchange into foreign currency or spend straight away.
Bus commutes were one price in the morning, and much more expensive on the way back. People had to spend time adjusting prices, but more importantly get rid of Zimbabwean currency as soon as you received it. Switch to a barter economy. With money becoming worthless, people found ways around the official economy, paying for goods in kind e.
Business increasingly switched to the use of foreign currency — the US dollar as the only way to survive inflation. In , this practice became more widespread. Lost savings. Anyone with savings lost everything — unless they were able to exchange with foreign currency. Even people with assets and property often saw the value shrink. Foreign exchange controls make it very hard to take money out of the country. Damage to business confidence. The extent of hyperinflation and fall in output disrupted normal economic activity and saw Zimbabwe GDP shrink.
It affects investors for a long time. Solving hyperinflation The government eventually stopped printing Zimbabwe dollars and normalised the practice of using the US dollar. Hyperinflation and Exchange Rate Hyperinflation causes a rapid decline in the value of a currency. Question related to hyperinflation in Zimbabwe Readers Question: I do not understand the responses. We cannot apply economic theories in Zimbabwean economy looking at phillips curve analysis which states that high inflation and high unemployment never core exist, rather we can develop our own economic theories which explain Zimbabwean economy Reply.
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