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Change and communication across the food supply chain will help stop prices from rising further.
My research shows that UK price rises are likely to have been caused by high profits, falling wages and weak production over decades
The idea that cutting prices can stoke inflation is correct in theory, but rarely in practice.
Washington’s protectionist industrial policy is fracturing trade and investment flows based on geopolitical considerations.
Incremental and pragmatic, New Zealand’s fifth Wellbeing Budget tries to balance cost-of-living support with huge long-term investment challenges – all without frightening the inflation horses.
The bar was always too hard for Dutton. This week’s budget, whatever criticisms can be made of it, has been an elusive target for the Liberals
The RBA’s latest forecasts assume no further rate rises will be needed. There’s nothing in the budget that should change that.
A long-term view on building up British business is key to showing the UK is ‘open for business’.
In this podcast, @michellegrattan canvasses the budget with Treasurer @JEChalmers, Shadow Treasurer @AngusTaylorMP and The Conversation's politics + society editor @amandadunn10
A strong revenue flow, including from a pick-up in wages, appears to have made it possible for the government to do somewhat more on welfare payments than it originally intended
Fuel subsidy removal can benefit workers and poor Nigerians, if the process is carefully managed and implemented.
Prom can be very expensive, but prices for clothes, photographers and other traditional gear haven’t climbed as much as everything else.
The numbers seem to be going in the ‘right’ direction for the Fed to pull off a soft landing – and avoid a recession – but the picture remains murky.
Australia’s inflation data for the March quarter suggests the central bank will impose one or two further increases to meet its policy objectives.
Businesses’ profit-seeking is an easy scapegoat for inflation. But a recent report from Treasury challenges this assumption.
Junior doctors face immense pressure at work – and a growing number are choosing to leave the NHS as a result of these poor working conditions.
The deeper causes of inflation will make it very difficult to bring price rises down to more manageable levels.
From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, more unionised workforces from Europe to Aotearoa New Zealand fought hard to keep wages abreast with inflation. But it’s unlikely that could happen now.
Initiatives like the federal government’s new grocery rebate are only a small step towards ending food insecurity in Canada. A broader guaranteed basic income is long overdue.
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