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A strong revenue flow, including from a pick-up in wages, appears to have made it possible for the government to do somewhat more on welfare payments than it originally intended
Fuel subsidy removal can benefit workers and poor Nigerians, if the process is carefully managed and implemented.
Prom can be very expensive, but prices for clothes, photographers and other traditional gear haven’t climbed as much as everything else.
The numbers seem to be going in the ‘right’ direction for the Fed to pull off a soft landing – and avoid a recession – but the picture remains murky.
Australia’s inflation data for the March quarter suggests the central bank will impose one or two further increases to meet its policy objectives.
Businesses’ profit-seeking is an easy scapegoat for inflation. But a recent report from Treasury challenges this assumption.
Junior doctors face immense pressure at work – and a growing number are choosing to leave the NHS as a result of these poor working conditions.
The deeper causes of inflation will make it very difficult to bring price rises down to more manageable levels.
From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, more unionised workforces from Europe to Aotearoa New Zealand fought hard to keep wages abreast with inflation. But it’s unlikely that could happen now.
Initiatives like the federal government’s new grocery rebate are only a small step towards ending food insecurity in Canada. A broader guaranteed basic income is long overdue.
The Fed’s campaign of rate hikes is showing more signs of having the intended effect of slowing the economy – but that may be bad news for those who lose their jobs or have a harder time finding one.
The federal government should make the grocery rebate permanent by adding it to the GST/HST credit.
Slow growth of exports and tourism and a resurgence of global inflation have created dollar shortages in some African economies.
More than one million borrowers are set to come off ultra-low fixed mortgage rates this year and next, meaning the full effect of the ten rate rises to date is yet to be felt.
Food insecurity is a problem of income inadequacy. The 2023 federal budget’s “grocery rebate” has the right idea, but falls short.
Domestic resource mobilisation cannot be achieved by over-taxing the livelihoods of the most vulnerable workers in the informal sector.
While most of the focus is on the here and now, here’s what the medium term could look like.
Raising rates to fight inflation involves a time lag so current efforts to bring down prices won’t start having an impact until the next election is approaching.
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