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Inflation in industrial countries
- Author: United Nations
- Main Title: World Economic Survey 1957 , pp 19-62
- Publication Date: April 1957
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18356/2f93038e-en
- Language: English
Widespread concern has been voiced about the increases in prices which have accompanied the growth in economic activity in the industrial countries since about 1954. Stabilization of the cost of living from 1952 to 1954 had encouraged the hope that an end had come to the long period of post-war price inflation which had begun with the reconstruction boom from 1946 to 1948, had continued in many countries as a direct result of the devaluations of 1949, and had reached a climax: during the early phases of the Korean conflict. This hope proved vain, however, and the upward course of prices was resumed during 1954 or 1955, and continued into 1958, long after the greatest pressures of demand had subsided in most countries and production had, in some cases, already begun to fall.
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