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Picking apart the mixed messages on rates

The past month has produced conflicting signals about the future path of monetary policy in the region. While policymakers in Hungary and Poland have begun the year by hiking interest rates, their counterparts in Turkey, where the growth outlook is brighter, have cut them. So, can these apparently contradictory moves be reconciled?

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