Chapter 1. introduction -- Chapter 2. The German Hyperinflation of 1923 -- Chapter 3. Macroeconomic Developments from the End of theof the 1960s to the early 1980s -- Chapter 4. The Inflation Wave from the Late 1960s onward -- Chapter 5. Comparison of developments in the various countries --...

The 2008 global economic and financial crisis spawned a synchronized recession among industrialized countries leading to a contraction in world trade. Exports from developing countries fell sharply dragging many of them into the global economic downturn. The Philippines was not spared the...