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

_IMF Blog, January 12, 2024_

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## Bibliographic details
- Authors: The Editors
- Published: January 12, 2024

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### 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).*

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## 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](https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/08/24/fossil-fuel-subsidies-surged-to-record-7-trillion)
- [World Economic Outlook Shows Economies Facing High Uncertainty](https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/04/19/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](https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/03/14/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](https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/11/15/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)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/blogs/articles/2024/01/12/charts-spotlight-inflation-economic-growth-globalization-and-climate-change_