policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic across 154 jurisdictions. It documents that authorities around the world have taken …

This paper studies the effects of global and domestic inflation shocks on core price inflation in 105 countries between … empirical results indicate that most of the variation in inflation among low-income countries over the past decades is accounted … for by external shocks. More than half of the variation in core inflation rates among low-income countries is due to …

In the past four to five decades, inflation has fallen around the world, with median annual global consumer price … inflation down from a peak of 16.6 percent in 1974 to 2.6 percent in 2017. This decline began in advanced economies in the mid …-1980s and in emerging market and developing economies in the mid-1990s. By 2000, global inflation had stabilized at …

Emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) have experienced an extraordinary decline in inflation since the early … 1970s. After peaking in 1974 at 17.3 percent, inflation in these economies declined to 3.5 percent in 2017. Despite a … checkered history of managing inflation among many EMDEs, disinflation occurred across all regions. This paper presents a …