High and persistent inflation has presented serious macroeconomic challenges in India in recent years, increasing the … country's domestic and external vulnerabilities. A number of factors underpin India's high inflation. This book analyzes … various facets of Indian inflation-the causes, consequences, and policies being implemented to manage it. Several chapters are …

particular inflation. The paper's major finding is that there indeed is a negative relationship between central bank financial … strength and inflation outcomes. This relationship appears to be robust to the choice of alternative country samples, control …

This paper investigates the factors that affect inflation in the GCC region by examining the inflationary processes in … Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. The paper utilizes a model that accounts for foreign factors affecting inflation, such as trading … partners' inflation and exchange rate pass-through effect, as well as domestic influences. The analysis concludes that, in the …

This article uses two analytical methodologies to understand the dynamics of inflation in Paraguay, the mark-up theory … of inflation and the monetary theory of inflation. We also study the impact of different monetary aggregates. The results … suggest that monetary factors, in particular currency in circulation, play a major role in determining long-run inflation …

inflation over the business cycle in a sample of fifteen Caribbean countries. In most countries, the evidence indicates the … that are exacerbated by pro-cyclical policy stance, tends to create an upward bias on inflation and a downward bias on real …

We offer a novel methodology for assessing the quality of inflation reports. In contrast to the existing literature …, which mostly evaluates the formal quality of these reports, we evaluate their economic content by comparing inflation … coding of inflation reports to describe inflation factors communicated by central banks in real time. Regarding the latter …

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 …