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Making sense of Latin America’s inflation conundrum

Recent data have given mixed messages on the outlook for inflation in Latin America. On the one hand, inflation seems to be firmly on a downward path in Brazil and Peru. Yet the drop in Chilean inflation has been far more modest and in Mexico inflation has now edged above the upper band of the central bank’s target range. Even so, we expect inflation across the region to fall further over the course of this year.

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