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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. High consumer prices

High consumer prices

  • Excessive retail prices
  • Price inflation

Incidence

The predominance of company car sales in the UK, pushes up prices because of the scale of discounts offered to fleet buyers means that these are largely recouped from private buyers.

Broader

Prohibitive cost of living
Presentable
Prohibitive cost of goods and services
Presentable

Narrower

Prohibitive cost of newspapers
Yet to rate

Aggravates

Stockouts
Excellent

Aggravated by

Corporate control of genetic material
Excellent
Shrinkflation
Excellent
Trade restrictions due to voluntary export restraints
Presentable
Restriction of free market competition by transnational corporations
Presentable

Related

Variation of prices for the same product in different places
Yet to rate

Strategy

Using economic instruments for sustainable development
Excellent
Reducing economic inflation
Yet to rate
Inflating prices
Yet to rate
Assuring top product prices
Yet to rate

Value

Inflation
Yet to rate
High-spiritedness
Yet to rate
High-mindedness
Yet to rate
Excess
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #8: Decent Work and Economic GrowthSustainable Development Goal #12: Responsible Consumption and ProductionSustainable Development Goal #17: Partnerships to achieve the Goal

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(D) Detailed problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Amenities » Consumers
  • Commerce » Merchants
  • Commerce » Purchasing, supplying
  • Economics » Economics
    • Content quality
    Unpresentable
     Unpresentable
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    J5436
    DOCID
    12054360
    D7NID
    156813
    Last update
    Oct 7, 2024