The Following All Led to Inflation During the Last Decades

question 8

Multiple Choice

The following all led to inflation during the last decades of the twentieth century EXCEPT:

• A) decolonization.
• B) government spending.
• C) the oil embargo in the 1970s.
• D) unemployment.

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