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The implications of higher food prices

Surging food prices are a cloud over the global economic outlook. While food inflation should fall sharply next year, it will remain high in the near term, eating further into households’ spending power and weighing on discretionary spending. What’s more, high rates of food price inflation will add to reasons to raise interest rates rapidly.

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