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What is inflation and how does it affect consumers?
Inflation pressures are more persistent than previously anticipated, but what is the inflation rate, how is it calculated and how can we rein it in?

In charts: 7 global shifts defining 2025 so far | World Economic Forum
So far, this year has been marked by significant global shifts, including increased geopolitical instability, the accelerating impact of AI and a changing labour market. Economic factors like new US tariffs are redrawing trade maps, while the energy transition shows progress and gender gaps persist. These seven charts from World Economic Forum reports help illustrate the inflection points this ...

What to know about the global economy in 2024 | World Economic Forum
The global economy was front and centre in 2024, as leaders grappled with challenges like inflation, multiple elections and the Intelligent Age.

Inflation: Why is it rising across the world and will it stay that way ...
Inflation is on the increase around the world, with food and energy prices hitting record highs. The rise has been driven in large part by pent-up consumer demand after the pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. UBS Chief Economist Paul Donovan explains why inflation is high and when we can expect that to ease.

Inflation: Past, Present and Future - The World Economic Forum
Inflation has rocked post-pandemic economies throughout the world, resulting in central banks raising interest rates to levels rarely seen in decades. In a geoeconomic environment characterized by isolationism, conflict and fragmentation, is it time to rethink approaches to inflation, drawing from the past, to better protect economies of the future?

Global Risks 2025: A world of growing divisions
The Global Risks Report 2025 analyses global risks to support decision-makers in balancing current crises and longer-term priorities.

What is hyperinflation? | World Economic Forum
In general, the term is used when the rate of inflation increases at more than 50% a month. Typically, hyperinflation is triggered by a very quick growth in the money supply. This could be caused by a government printing money to pay for its spending or what’s known as demand-pull inflation.

5 books on inflation to help you understand the concept
From Yanis Varoufakis ‘talking to his daughter about capitalism’ to the dangers of deflation, these books on inflation explain all you need to know about the concept.

What is the Consumer Price Index and its link to inflation? | World ...
Inflation is an important indicator of an economy’s health. Governments and central banks use the CPI and other indices to make economic decisions. Key among these is whether to raise or lower interest rates. Higher interest rates make borrowing money more expensive and are designed to push down consumer spending – and, in turn, inflation.

Stagflation made us rethink how we manage economies. Will it make a ...
Anticipation has grown for an onset of 'stagflation,’ a toxic blend of deteriorating growth and rising inflation, in the US and elsewhere. Dismal stagflation in the 1970s forced a broad shift in thinking believed to better protect economies from the malady. But it ‘isn’t just a relic of the past,’ says EY Chief Economist Gregory Daco, particularly at a time of greater government ...