Rising food prices are clouding Asian rate cut outlook

Governments should review available policy tools to boost supplies

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An open air market in Ahmedabad, India: Food represents 27% of the overall Asian consumer price index, with its national contribution ranging from 14% in South Korea to 46% in India. © Reuters

Priyanka Kishore is economic and forum director for CEO peer group forum IMA Asia and former head of India and Southeast Asia at Oxford Economics.

Asia is having more of a struggle with inflation on its way down than the region had with it on the way up last year.

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