Some Countries Have Had High Inflation Rates for a Long

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Essay

Some countries have had high inflation rates for a long time and other countries have had low inflation rates for a long time. Yet in some of the high-inflation countries, the unemployment rate is not much different or even higher than in the low-inflation countries. Explain how these observations can be consistent with the Phillips curve.

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