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During a bout of inflation firms will face higher costs for the resources they need to carry on their business. They will have to pay higher wages to their employees to compensate them for rising prices. Supplies of raw materials and fuel will become more expensive as will rents and rates. The inevitable reaction to this is that the firm has to raise its own prices. This will lead to further demands for higher wages as is called the wage-price spiral. Such cost-push inflation may make the goods and services produced by that enterprise internationally less competitive in terms of price. An economy whose relative or comparative rate of inflation is high may find that it is unable to compete in home or foreign markets because its products are expensive. The economic model tells us that a situation of declining exports and increasing imports lower the level of activity in the economy with all the consequent side-effects.
JNIT 13. INFLATION AND BUSINESS
Answer the following questions. 1. The impact of inflation on business (in brief): • accounting and financial problems; • falling sales; • high interest rates. 2. How can businesses influence the economic environment? 3. Do you believe in the advice to borrow heavily in a period of inflation? Give your reasons. |
VOCABULARY impact - вплив, удар
NOTES to waste valuable time - марнувати
дорогоцінний час onerous - складний, обтяжливий wages unadjusted for inflation - заробітна плата без урахування рівня інфляції to supplement income - доповнювати дохід
a higher tax bracket - наступна група, категорія (напр. при групуванні платників податків за доходом) fiscal drag - фінансове гальмо економічного зростання за допомогою податкових вилучень
EXERCISES I. Answer the following questions.
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they no longer qualify for - вони більше не попадають під... disposable income - чистий дохід index-linked - індексований reduction in spending (syn. buying, purchasing) power - зниження купівельної спроможності
declining demand - падіння попиту tend to discourage investment - не сприяє інвестуванню
to dissuade - відмовляти, відговорювати to retain - зберігати, стримувати, підтримувати
bout (syn. period, spell) of inflation -період інфляції
Give Ukrainian equivalents:
difficulty in valuing assets and stocks
to avoid holding an asset
increased in line with inflation
this may well take a worker into a higher tax bracket
fiscal drag
poverty trap
wages are not index-linked
spending power
the cost of borrowing funds
the wage-price spiral
in terms of price
Replace the parts in italics by synonyms: broad reasons
to identify the reason for this business may be hit by a reduction in sales wages unadjusted for inflation in line with
to supplement incomes
will increase withdrawals depressing firms' sales may be dissuaded from undertaking
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IV Find in the text English equivalents for the following: робити щось складним; періоди інфляції; назвати причину чогось; перевести в готівку;
розповсюджуватися на когось (про державні пільги); дохід, що залишається після сплати податків;
PART I. ECONOMICS
товари першої необхідності; компенсувати комусь щось.
V Fill in the gaps with the words and expressions from the text.
1. Accounting and financial problems can waste_____ and make____,___ and___ more
2. Businesses may be____ by a reduction in sales.
3. The process, known as____, will cause workers to have less money available.
4. If the wages are not____, they rise less quickly than the rate of inflation.
5. Those selling____, such as food, may be little affected in an inflationary period.
6. High interest rates tend to_____ by businesses.
7. The fall in investment may be____ by foreign investment being reduced.
8. Firms will have to pay higher wages to their employees to______ rising prices.
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