To make things worse, for this group of countries and some other developed countries, growth over the next couple of years looks likely to run one or two percentage points below where it has been in the past few years (Figure 6). BIS Review 95/2008  9  Figure 6.
Inflation and growth outlook, selected developed countries  Sources: Statistics NZ, DataStream, Statistics Sweden, Government of Japan Cabinet Office, Consensus Economics Inc. Country key: AU Australia, CAN Canada, JAP Japan, NZ New Zealand, UK United Kingdom, US United States, SWE Sweden. In some Asian countries, the situation is very difficult indeed, where food in particular forms a much larger proportion of the consumption basket.