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Cost of living and Economic Success
The Government will have some reassuring to do as many residents will not understand why the cost of living and the economic performance are rising in tandem, while most personal incomes remain unchanged.
One would expect that if the economic conditions are favourable then wages would increase, thereby allowing the consumers to afford the rise in cost of living that accompanies success.
However, the cost of living or inflation is one of the unfortunate consequences of economic growth.
Economic growth means an increase in real GDP. This is usually considered beneficial, but there are also potential costs of economic growth such as:
- Inflation
- Boom and bust economic cycles
- Current account deficit
- Environmental costs – pollution, loss of non-renewable resources
- Congestion
- Potential of widening inequality.
The costs of economic growth will depend on the type of growth that we see.
We will discuss more in our new series ‘Surviving with the high cost of living’ coming soon.
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