The world economy is witnessing an unprecedented surge in inflation, which has led to a globally synchronized tightening of the monetary policy stance across advanced and emerging economies. Against a backdrop of growing fears of global economic fragmentation and a resurgence of geopolitical...

Topics: - Global inflation and the natural rate of interest: understanding drivers, persistence, and longer-term outlook; - Global commodity cycle; - Global spillovers from unconventional monetary policies, tapering, and central bank communications; - International monetary policy interaction and...