Recent inflation in many countries has been the result of higher commodity prices, especially fuel and food prices. In these circumstances, domestic deflationary policies will only further slow growth and are helpless to stem imported inflation.

Heightened urban food insecurity, due to inflation and commodity shortages, has also been reported.

If anything, inflation is now falling further globally as commodity prices adjust downward in response to weak global growth. And gold is following the fall in actual and expected inflation.

The outlook for 2005 is for a slowdown in economic growth as commodity prices decline but for a slight increase in inflation.

If food inflation recedes further, and the headline inflation rate starts to converge on the 3 core (non food) rate, the result will be the equivalent of passive monetary tightening in real (inflation adjusted) terms precisely what the inflation prone Chinese economy needs.

Another reason why the Fed should postpone a rate hike is that financial turmoil in emerging markets, particularly China, could have a substantial impact on the global economy, with some clear implications for the US economy. In particular, lower energy and commodity prices are likely to dampen inflationary pressure.

The fear now in both countries is that inflation shocks could turn into a self reinforcing price spiral. As the IMF cautions, core inflation excluding commodities has risen from 2 to 3.75 , suggesting that inflation is broadening.

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Europe must aim for sustainable, non inflationary growth and the creation of competitive jobs. The current inflation rate of 0.3 is due to the significant decline in commodity prices and the painful but unavoidable adjustment of costs and prices in the peripheral countries.

WMO further practices full budgeting for inflationary cost increases so that the approved appropriations include provisions for inflation based on the rates projected by the Consultative Committee on Administrative Questions.

But, though inflation is very low, and even negative in a few countries, something more must be going on, because commodity prices are falling relative to the overall price level. In other words, real commodity prices are falling.

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Inflation has caused prices of some items to soar, in some cases by up to 100 per cent of their value.

Moreover, the dollar s appreciation relative to other currencies has reduced import costs, putting competitive pressure on domestic firms to reduce prices. That is clearly reflected in the difference between the 0.2 annual inflation rate for goods and the 2.5 rate for services (over the past 12 months).

Its relaxed attitude about inflation reflects its focus on the longer term past, with PCE inflation at just 1.5 for the 12 months to August of this year, the same as the core PCE inflation rate, which excludes food and energy. But PCE inflation has also been rising, with the most recent quarterly value at 2.3 year on year in the April June period.

Inflation has been soaring, reportedly reaching 560 per cent in the north of the country.

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Such price increases can prove particularly inflationary in countries that import commodities. And they can be disastrous to exporting economies, which risk rapid currency appreciation and thus a loss of competitiveness.

Second, inflationary tendencies in many developed countries were very subdued during the current phase of the expansion, and thus did not provide a stimulus to speculative buying of commodities.

Here, the Fed is making a fatal mistake, as it relies heavily on a timeworn inflation forecasting methodology that filters out the special factors driving the often volatile prices of goods like food and energy. The logic is that the price fluctuations will eventually subside, and headline price indicators will converge on the core rate of inflation.

4. Expresses the urgent need for supportive international policies to improve the functioning of commodity markets through efficient and transparent price formation mechanisms, including commodity exchanges, and through the use of commodity price risk management instruments

SEOUL The commodity super cycle in which commodity prices reach ever higher highs, and fall only to higher lows is not over. Despite the euphoria around shale gas indeed, despite weak global growth commodity prices have risen by as much as 150 in the aftermath of the financial crisis.

2. Expresses the urgent need for supportive international policies and measures to improve the functioning of commodity markets through efficient and transparent price formation mechanisms, including commodity exchanges, and through the use of commodity price risk management instruments

And they're more vulnerable to job losses, subject to inflation, tightening loans from banks, appreciation of the renminbi, or decline of demand from Europe or America for the products they produce.

Prospects for 2005 in the subregion are for a moderation in output growth and in inflation as oil and other commodity prices ease in the months ahead.

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Annual industrial commodity production statistics are disseminated through the Industrial Commodity Statistics Yearbook with a time lag of about two years, while the monthly commodity production statistics are disseminated though the Monthly Bulletin of Statistics with a time lag of a quarter.

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As indicated by the report, the inflation rate of Tajikistan was 3.7 in the first seven months. And the inflation rate in July was 0.6 while such rate in the past year was 6 .

Commodity markets, too, have become a source of disinflationary pressure. North America s shale energy revolution has weakened oil and gas prices, while China s slowdown has undermined demand for a broad range of commodities, including iron ore, copper, and other industrial metals, all of which are in greater supply after years of high prices stimulated investments in new capacity.

The prospect of falling prices reflects the collapse of industrial production, the resulting high level of unemployment, and the dramatic decline in commodity prices. Industrial production is falling at double digit rates in the negative inflation countries, and the price index for all commodities is down more than 30 over the past year.

Moreover, surveys of consumer expectations show that US households expect prices to rise at more than 2 in both the coming year and the more distant future. That expected inflation rate is consistent with the difference in interest rates between ordinary US government bonds and Treasury Inflation Protected Securities.

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Such countries typically exhibit high dependence on commodities.