The purchasing power of the Zimbabwean dollar:

A. rose because when inflation rises, purchasing power rises.
B. fell because there was more money chasing the same goods.
C. rose because the money supply rose but real output did not.
D. fell because people would not accept the newly-printed money.


Ans: B. fell because there was more money chasing the same goods.

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