February’s inflation data were stronger than expected across Emerging Europe, fuelling concerns that the recent jump in oil prices is feeding into higher headline inflation. But we think this reading of the data is misguided. Instead, headline inflation is being driven by the remnants of last year’s commodity price spike a year ago as well as more recent indirect tax changes.
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