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World Service,14 Sep 2021,26 mins

US inflation shows signs of cooling

World Business Report

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Inflation in the US is running at 5.3%, slightly down on July's year-on-year figure. Robert Reich is a Professor of Public Policy at the University of California Berkeley and a Secretary of Labour under President Clinton, and he talks us through the latest data. The plane maker Boeing says it expects that it will take another two and a half years for global aviation to return to pre-pandemic levels; we hear from its Chief Strategy Officer, Marc Allen. Also in the programme, there are suggestions that pasta prices could rise by 50% owing to a shortage of wheat. Tosin Jack is commodity intelligence manager at price analysis company Mintec Global, and explains the background. Plus, the BBC's Vivienne Nunis reports on the changing face of tourism in Kenya. (Picture: Fruit prices in a supermarket. Picture credit: Getty Images.)

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