After its counter-cyclical policies successfully steered the country through the financial crisis, Brazil must now face up to the problem of inflationary inertia

In April 2010, the African Development Bank Group was granted a 200 percent increase in capital, boosting it to $100bn, to take effect in 2011

Kenya’s year-on-year inflation rate increased marginally to 3.6 percent in July from a revised 3.5 percent a month earlier, the central bank has announced

Australia’s central bank raised its key cash rate by 25 basis points to 4.5 percent recently and signalled the first stage of its tightening cycle was over after six hikes in eight months