Can we contain the global inflation crisis?

Rising food and oil prices, and a jump in raw material costs are causing a global inflation crisis. How well governments learn from previous inflation shocks will determine how bad it gets.

Amidst all the furore regarding the Labour administration's embarrassingly mis-managed tax shortcomings, the cries of those in the UK warning of a growing humanitarian crisis in the developing world have been lost.

Rising raw material prices, in particular rising food prices, are now causing real hardship and what represents a cause for shoppers in developed economies to grumble is a matter nothing short of life and death for the millions less fortunate around the world. This note considers what many emerging countries are doing and why their actions, far from alleviating the problem, are actually making matters worse.

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CountryActionCommodity
ArgentinaExport dutySoybeans (up to 44%)
Row 2 - Cell 0 Export banBeef
ChinaSubsidiesFarmers: Rice/Corn
Row 4 - Cell 0 Export dutyFood products
Row 5 - Cell 0 Export dutyFertilisers
Cambodia Export banRice (2 months)
EgyptExport banRice
IndiaExport banNon-basmati rice
KazakhstanExport banWheat
Malaysia StockpilingRice and oil
PakistanExport dutyWheat (35%)
PhilippinesRationingRice
RussiaExport dutyWheat (40%)
SingaporeStockpilingRice
Sri Lanka StockpilingRice
VietnamExport restrictionsRice
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