Given the changing challenges and obligations of current economic growth, inflation appears to have become an arbiter between the level of economic growth and the level of the general economy. Indeed, despite its economic pressure nature, inflation is sometimes used as an instrument of monetary equilibrium. However, if we look at previous studies, we see a clear disparity in inflation rates between developed and developing countries. The purpose of this paper is to understand this disparity, to analyse it and to give it consideration.
KeywordsDisparityInflation RateGroup of TwentySub-Saharan Africa
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