DeCEDA/Qrius 2022 was a milestone year for India. India walked into 2022 with an infectious wave of Covid-19 impacting lakhs of people, the wave receded a few weeks into the year. As hopes for a post-pandemic recovery surged, war in Ukraine brought in new challenges for the economy. With supply chains disrupted, global sanctions imposed on Russia, prices of fuel and food shot up. Inflation, already on a high from pent-up...
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Govt will work to further bring down inflation: Nirmala Sitharaman in Lok Sabha
-PTI/ The Telegraph Experts say a high base of last year and some easing in food prices also worked in favour of the November 2022 wholesale price index The wholesale price-based inflation fell to a 21-month low of 5.85 per cent in November as prices of food, fuel and manufactured items softened. The WPI (wholesale price index) based inflation has been on a declining trend since May and came down to single digit...
More »Inflation Likely Hit Five-Month High in September on Food Prices: Reuters Poll -Arsh Tushar Mogre
-TheWire.in A Reuters poll suggested inflation rose to an annual 7.3% in September from 7% in the previous month. If realised, that would be the highest since May 2022. Bengaluru: India‘s retail inflation accelerated to a five month high of 7.3% in September due to surging food prices, staying well above the Reserve Bank of India‘s (RBI) upper tolerance band for a ninth month, a Reuters poll found. Fueled by erratic rainfall and...
More »Is Food Inflation in India Driven by Demand or Supply? -Deepanshu Mohan, and others
-TheWire.in While domestic food price inflation is high globally, consumer food price inflation in India has increased from 0.68% to 8.38% between September 2021 and April 2022. Inflation has continued to peak at an all-time high in all economies around the world, with food and energy prices skyrocketing to unprecedented levels. Even industrially developed nations like the US, Canada, and the Eurozone, which experienced decades-long of stable price levels have struggles to...
More »Food items keep WPI up at 12.4 per cent
-The Telegraph There has been a pick-up in the prices of vegetables, fruits, eggs, meat and fish and cereals mostly because of erratic rains Wholesale price index-based (WPI) inflation eased to a 11-month low of 12.41 per cent in August on softening in the prices of manufactured and fuel products even as food items remained expensive. Although WPI inflation declined for three consecutive months in August, it remained in double digits for...
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