challenge for economists. The International Monetary Fund proposes within its periodic World Economic Outlook report a measure …-frequency information. Pseudo real-time results show that this approach provides reliable and timely nowcasts of the world GDP annual growth …

forecast country inflation. This paper constructs forecasts of common (or 'global') inflation using survey forecasts of country … not at a longer horizon. Global inflation forecasts, and forecast errors, are correlated with survey forecasts and errors … forecasting country inflation than do lags of global inflation. However, for most countries, lagged or forecast global inflation …