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Understanding and Forecasting Inflation in Timor-Leste

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  • Kohei Asao
  • Raju Huidrom

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This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of inflation in Timor-Leste—a post-conflict, low-income economy and small developing state that is fully dollarized. We find that Timorese inflation was high until about mid-2010 and was strongly influenced by swings in global food prices given its high share of food in the CPI basket and heavy reliance on food imports. But inflation has been relatively low and stable in the past decade relative to peers—a period that also broadly coincided with moderate global food prices. We develop an empirical model for Timorese inflation that distills the role of these underlying drivers, and which can be deployed for forecasting inflation.

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  • Kohei Asao & Raju Huidrom, 2026. "Understanding and Forecasting Inflation in Timor-Leste," IMF Working Papers 2026/024, International Monetary Fund.
    • Handle: RePEc:imf:imfwpa:2026/024
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