This article aims to assess the impact of imports on inflation in the Democratic Republic of Congo from 1980 to 2016. Using a vector-error-correction model (VECM), the results show that: Imports induce the level of inflation in the DRC; Moreover, inflation is also explained by the money supply, the long-term exchange rate, economic growth and the budget deficit in the short and long term; Moreover, an innovation in the standard deviation of the inflation rate of the order of one unit (a positive shock) generally results in a positive effect on its values during the period under consideration; this is not the case for the exchange rate and the economic growth rate, which are negatively affected by the said shock during the same period.
The present study confronts the economic growth rate to the human development index in order to sort out the correlation links between the economic growth levels reached in relation to the social development level undergone by Congolese population and puts in exergue factors explaining this situation during the period from 2001 to 2014. Meanwhile, despite these immense resources, the Democratic Republic of Congo is classified as one of the poorest countries of the world and her population in inhuman conditions. More than 71% of Congolese people live with less than one American dollar per person per day.
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