This paper analyzes the monetary policy response to rising inflation in emerging and developing countries associated … with the food and oil price shocks in 2007 and the first half of 2008. It reviews inflation developments in a sample of … of inflation; provides a synthesis of policy responses taken against the background of the conflicting objectives and …

output, aggregate demand, and inflation to an increase in commodity price are magnified when these rules are imperfectly … volatility. Also, our results indicate that having an explicit fiscal rule and an inflation targeting regime contribute to …

Indian food and fuel inflation has remained high for several years, and second-round effects on core inflation are … model of the Indian economy, which incorporates pass-through from headline inflation to core inflation. The results indicate … that India's inflation is highly inertial and persistent. Due to second-round effects, the gap between headline inflation …

We develop a semi-structural new-Keynesian open-economy model, with separate food and non-food inflation dynamics, for …-relevant exercises. First, we filter international and Kenyan data (on output, inflation and its components, exchange rates and interest … inflation. Third, we perform an out-of-sample forecast to identify where the economy—and therefore policy—was likely headed …

high degree of exchange rate pass-through to headline inflation and the weak monetary transmission mechanism in PICs … suggest a greater efficacy of exchange rate changes in affecting inflation rather than monetary policy. To assess the tradeoff … rate changes and headline inflation and the low interest rate sensitivity of aggregate demand …