Consumer Price Indices and Inflation Rates-August 2007
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CPI and Inflation Rates
August
2007
Overview
Consumer Price Index (CPI) declined by 0.3 per cent from 226.6 points in July 2007 to 225.8 points in August 2007. Month-on-month overall inflation rate decelerated from 13.6 per cent in July 2007 to 12.4 per cent in August 2007. On the other hand, month-on-month underlying inflation rate which excludes food items from the CPI basket also declined from 5.6 per cent in July 2007 to 5.2 per cent in August 2007.