This caused an economic collapse and resulted in triple-digit inflation.

Vietnam is suffering triple-digit inflation, large unemployment and food shortages.

And triple-digit inflation gives producers an incentive to withhold food from the market in anticipation of higher prices later on.

At the same time, he ordered price controls to attack triple-digit inflation, bringing additional relief to ordinary consumers.

Despite months of unrelenting austerity, Argentines again face triple-digit inflation.

It will be the fifth year, in the last six years, that Brazil had triple-digit inflation.

For years, the Sudanese economy was a disaster, with triple-digit inflation, moribund industries and war.

With triple-digit inflation, a limp currency and rising unemployment, Zimbabwe can barely help itself, let alone its neighbors.

Meanwhile, statistics point to a return of triple-digit inflation and show no clear recovery in external accounts.

One complaint is that swaps swell the money supply in countries already struggling with triple-digit inflation.