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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Central banks’ interest rate hikes aimed at combating inflation could exacerbate a deepening, “dangerous divergence” between advanced and developing economies, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said Wednesday. Inflation is not a universal phenomenon, Georgieva noted, but was a problem in a number of countries and especially the United States. U.S. consumer prices https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-consumer-prices-increase-strongly-december-2022-01-12 surged 7% in the 12 months to December, the largest annual increase in n…