Training Course: Inflation, Deflation and the Economic Balancing Act
1Summary
What happens after an economy overheats? Spending keeps climbing, prices follow, and at some point borrowing itself becomes the trigger for the next phase of the cycle. Tracing that chain — from rising expenditure to inflation to the central bank’s response — is essential for anyone trying to read where an economy stands at a given moment.
This training course from the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy walks participants through the full mechanism: how expansion turns into inflation, how rising debt costs slow borrowing and spending, how that slowdown can tip into recession, and how central banks step in to restore balance. The goal is a practical, cause-and-effect understanding of inflation that participants can apply well beyond the classroom.
2Objectives and target group
Who Should Attend?
- Staff of banks, government institutions and credit organisations involved in lending.
- Economics and business administration graduates, and those about to launch economic activity in their field.
Knowledge and Benefits:
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Apply practical methods used to pull an economy out of depression.
- Explain how banks come under strain during downturns, and identify ways to ease that pressure.
- Link unemployment trends to falling spending and deflation.
- Assess the role of austerity in reducing debt burdens at a national level.
3Course Content
Module 1: What Drives Inflation
- The causes behind inflation.
- How inflation links to exchange rate movements.
Module 2: Inflation, Depression and Recovery
- How depression relates to inflation.
- Ways to confront inflation and limit how long it continues.
- Rates of re-inflation after a period of slowdown.
Module 3: Core Concepts and Types
- The definition of economic inflation.
- The different types of inflation.
Want to go deeper? The Academy also offers an extended mini-master track built around inflation and how to avoid it; contact the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy team for details.
Where and When
The course runs in Egypt, Jordan, Malaysia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Austria, Denmark, Australia and the United States, at a time and place that fits your schedule.
How It’s Delivered
- Group training.
- One-to-one training.
- Field and practical training following an integrated curriculum.
- Classroom-based theory sessions.
On Completion
Participants receive a certificate from the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy confirming their attendance of this course on inflation.