The secretary general of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development has today played down the risk of stagflation due to the Iran crisis.
Asked whether the OECD feared a repetition of the stagflation seen in the 1970s, Mathias Cormann said: “We don’t see as a base-case scenario a risk of stagflation.”
“What we experience today is different. Today’s inflation is being driven primarily by a specific supply shock in energy prices rather than broad-based demand,” he told a panel discussion at an economic forum in Delphi in Greece.
The global economy has some genuine sources of strength, he added.
Stagflation is a combination of stagnant economic growth and high inflation and unemployment.
