History glossary
inflation
A rise in prices that reduces what money can buy; extreme inflation weakened the Nationalist government during the later civil war..
- Category
- Economics
- Region
- China
- Date range
- 1940s
What it means
A rise in prices that reduces what money can buy; extreme inflation weakened the Nationalist government during the later civil war.
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