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1. Classification on the basis of inducement
• Currency-induced inflation. This occurs when supply of money exceeds the available output of goods and services leading to an inflationary increase in prices.
• Credit-induced inflation. This occurs when prices increase on account of an expansion of credit without increasing the quantity of money.
• Foreign trade-induced inflation. This occurs when a country experiences a sudden rise in the demand for its exports against the inelastic supply of exports in the domestic market hence increasing the demand and price level at home.
• Scarcity-induced inflation. This occurs when supply of goods does not increase the account of natural calamities hence increasing the price levels.
• Deficit-induced inflation. This occurs when a government covers the deficit in its budget through making new money. Tis results to an increase in the purchasing power of the community without a simultaneous increase in production.
• Wage-induced inflation. This occurs when rising wages increasing the general price levels profit-induced inflation. If the producers due to their monopoly position tend to mark-up their profits margin, it will lead to profit-induced inflation and higher profits raise the cost of production which in turn pushes up the prices.
2. Classifications on the basis of speed.
• Creeping inflation. Under creeping inflation, prices rise about 2 percent annually.
• Walking inflation. Under walking inflation, prices rise by about 5 percent annually.
• Running inflation. Under running inflation, prices rise by about 10 percent annually.
• Galloping or hyper-inflation. This type of inflation starts when the level of full employment is reached. Price increase is over 10 percent annually.
3. Classification on the basis of time
• Peace-time inflation. This is inflation during the normal peace time. It occurs when the government increases expenditure on development projects which normally have longer gestation periods. A gap rises between the generation of money income and the final availability of goods leading to rise in prices.
• Post-war inflation. This occurs after the end of the war when pent-up demand finds open expression. Heavy taxes which have been imposed during the war are withdrawn during post-war period. As a result the disposable income of the people increases without increase in the output hence increasing the prices.
• War-time inflation. During war time unproductive government expenditure increases and the prices rise because the increase in output does not keep pace with the expansion of expenditure.
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