Charts Spotlight Inflation, Economic Growth, Globalization, and Climate Change

IMF Blog, January 12, 2024

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• Authors: The Editors
• Published: January 12, 2024

Overview

• A look back at the most popular Chart of the Week blogs on IMF Blog in 2023.
• Themes highlighted: inflation, economic growth, housing, food prices, globalization, and climate change.
• Visualizations encapsulate the biggest challenges policymakers faced—and may keep confronting in the year ahead.

Most-read Chart of the Week posts (titles, descriptions, and dates)

• Europe’s Inflation Outlook Depends on How Corporate Profits Absorb Wage Gains
  • "Higher prices so far mostly reflect increases in profits and import costs, but labor costs are picking up"
  • June 26, 2023
• Fossil Fuel Subsidies Surged to Record $7 Trillion
  • "Scaling back subsidies would reduce air pollution, generate revenue, and make a major contribution to slowing climate change"
  • August 24, 2023
• World Economic Outlook Shows Economies Facing High Uncertainty
  • "The Chart of the Week brings together our economic forecasts, which reveal weaker growth amid an uncertain outlook with high downside risks"
  • April 19, 2023
• Asia Poised to Drive Global Economic Growth, Boosted by China’s Reopening
  • "China and India together are forecast to generate about half of global growth this year"
  • May 1, 2023
• House Prices Continue to Fall as Borrowing Costs Rise
  • "Property markets should enjoy greater stability when central banks slow or pause their campaign of raising interest rates to tame inflation"
  • March 15, 2023
• Charting Globalization’s Turn to Slowbalization After Global Financial Crisis
  • "Trade openness increased after the Second World War, but has slowed following the global financial crisis"
  • February 8, 2023
• Global Food Crisis May Persist, With Prices Still Elevated After Year of War
  • "International organizations repeat joint call for rapid action on food and nutrition security"
  • March 9, 2023
• Global Economic Uncertainty Remains Elevated, Weighing on Growth
  • "From Brexit and US-China trade tensions to the pandemic and war, successive shocks have combined to keep uncertainty elevated"
  • January 26, 2023
• Climate Change is Disrupting Global Trade
  • "Panama’s drought shows how trade disruptions from climate extremes can reverberate around the world"
  • November 15, 2023
• How Falling Home Prices Could Strain Financial Markets as Interest Rates Rise
  • "Countries with elevated housing prices and high household debt issued at floating rates are particularly vulnerable to monetary policy tightening"
  • May 31, 2023

Source: IMF Blog — Charts Spotlight Inflation, Economic Growth, Globalization, and Climate Change (January 12, 2024).

References

• [Europe’s Inflation Outlook Depends on How Corporate Profits

Absorb Wage Gains](https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/06/26/europes-inflation-outlook-depends-on-how-corporate-profits-absorb-wage-gains)

• Fossil Fuel Subsidies Surged to Record $7 Trillion
• World Economic Outlook Shows Economies Facing High Uncertainty
• [Asia Poised to Drive Global Economic Growth, Boosted by China’s

Reopening](https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/05/01/asia-poised-to-drive-global-economic-growth-boosted-by-chinas-reopening)

• House Prices Continue to Fall as Borrowing Costs Rise
• [Charting Globalization’s Turn to Slowbalization After Global

Financial Crisis](https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/02/08/charting-globalizations-turn-to-slowbalization-after-global-financial-crisis)

• [Global Food Crisis May Persist, With Prices Still Elevated

After Year of War](https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/03/09/global-food-crisis-may-persist-with-prices-still-elevated-after-year-of-war)

• [Global Economic Uncertainty Remains Elevated, Weighing on

Growth](https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/01/26/global-economic-uncertainty-remains-elevated-weighing-on-growth)

• Climate Change is Disrupting Global Trade
• [How Falling Home Prices Could Strain Financial Markets as

Interest Rates Rise](https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/05/31/how-falling-home-prices-could-strain-financial-markets-as-interest-rates-rise)