Higher agricultural commodities prices have combined with rising capital flows to emerging markets to drive inflation in the BRICs. This week’s Chartbook identifies the drivers of food demand and food inflation in the BRICs. In a special section on soft commodities, we compare recent sharp increases in prices of grains, cotton, rubber, vegetable oils and sugar with those during the 2007-08 food crisis.
When we last looked at this topic in January 2010 we highlighted a divergence...
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