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These commodity price hikes are likely to affect producer prices and consumer inflation within a couple of years.
This leaves the people in the drylands especially vulnerable when the rains fail and food prices rise – as they have done dramatically over the past 12 months, for a variety of reasons, including the high cost of fuel, global commodity price hikes and the actions of unscrupulous local traders.
They also note that the bump in underlying inflation due to commodity price hikes seems to be ebbing: As I pointed out yesterday, the same thing is true of the sticky-price CPI, which is arguably the conceptually closest thing to what we really mean by core inflation: So, terrible growth prospects; low inflation; oh, and low interest rates, with no sign of the bond vigilantes.
It is important to acknowledge that the commodity price hikes since the year 2000 in combination with better policies have benefited some countries such as Botswana, Chile, and Kazakhstan.
The only, and I mean only, time in the postwar era that commodity price hikes generated general inflation was in the early 1970s--when 1970s--when 1970s--whenave become a fact of life and the oil embargo wreaked economic havoc.
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