Deflation concerns spread across the emerging world

Following sharp falls in commodity prices, concerns have started to mount that parts of the emerging world are about to slip into a damaging period of deflation. Although we think that inflation is set to remain extremely weak for some time to come, deflation is not an imminent threat yet for most of the emerging world with the exception of a handful of economies.


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