La Prensa reports: JUBILEE FOUNDATION FOOD ROSE 2% IN TWO MONTHS The first two months of 2015, food prices rose 2%, as estimated by the Jubilee Foundation. The February rate was 0.11% and is lower than those recorded during the previous three months. According to INE, inflation in February was 0.34%; while food prices rose…
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A proof that Bolivia is not properly calculating its inflation: was it on purpose or…?
Hilton Heredia reports for El Deber: The INE will amend the Consumer Price Index in 2015 They will include new food, technology and transport products in the cost structure. A former president of the BCB noted different behaviors in each of the regions. The National Statistics Institute (INE) enlists a survey of personal and household…
Bolivia among the five countries with MORE inflation!
Gregory Beltran reports for La Prensa: Rising food in the region was 1.3% higher in 2013 BOLIVIA IS ONE OF THE FIVE COUNTRIES WITH MORE INFLATION According to FAO report, the price increase implies a impact on welfare of the poorest households, because [the poor] allocate more money to that item. Bolivia started in 2013…
2013 inflation will be over 8%
Pagina Siete reports: PRICES OF PRODUCTS Entrepreneurs claim that inflation will be higher than 8% The businessmen of Santa Cruz warned that the country’s inflation this year will exceed 8%, while the Government assures that it shall not exceed that percentage. Santa Cruz entrepreneurs’ President, Gabriel Dabdoub, said that the high prices recorded during the…
Higher inflation in those South American countries under “socialism”… surprised?
Hilton Heredia reports for El Deber: ECONOMY Venezuela, Bolivia and Uruguay, with higher regional inflation Venezuela reached a food inflation of 4.9%, Bolivia Uruguay 2.2% and 3.9%. The chicken has incidence Venezuela, Bolivia and Uruguay are the countries with higher levels of food inflation in the region during September [2013]. The first country reached 4.9%,…
Bolivian inflation is harder to deny! Food prices rose by 101% since 2006… wonder why?
Pagina Siete reports: ACCORDING TO RESEARCH OF THE JUBILEO FOUNDATION Food prices rose by 101%, from 2006 So far year, food inflation reached 11.11% and is the highest rate since 2010. Affects more to the poorest households. The price of food has doubled in the past eight years, according to a report of the Jubileo…
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