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Will rents push up consumer price inflation?

Most attention has been concentrated on the transient drivers of higher inflation, but a more sustainable pick-up in rent inflation is also underway in the US. This Update recaps how rents are treated in the CPI data in major advanced economies and considers how far they could drive up inflation.

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