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Chapter II. The World Economy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2020

R.J. Barrell  and
Andrew Gurney
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Our February forecast suggested that developments in the short term would be dominated by fears of accelerating inflation and policy responses to them. This has indeed been the case. In Japan, Germany and the US wholesale prices have begun to rise relatively rapidly. Although commodity prices, especially of metals and minerals and of developed country foods, have fallen in recent weeks, at least in dollar terms they remain high and oil prices appear to have hit temporary peaks at the beginning of the quarter. These developments are the result of demand pressure. Our equations for real commodity prices, which were reported in the August 1988 issue of the Review, do have rather strong influences from world industrial production in then. As commodity prices are more timely than figures for demand and output they have often been early indicators of rising demand and we believe that they are currently, and correctly, filling this role.

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National Institute Economic Review , Volume 128 , May 1989 , pp. 20 - 39
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Copyright © 1989 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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