Consumer Price Indices and Inflation Rates-January 2008
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CPI and Inflation Rates
January
2008
Overview
Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 8.8 per cent from 239.81 points in December 2007 to 260.94 points in January 2008. Month-on-month overall inflation rate accelerated from 12.0 per cent in December 2007 to 18.2 per cent in January 2008. On the other hand, month-on-month underlying inflation rate which excludes food items from the CPI basket accelerated from 5.9 per cent in December 2007 to 7.6 per cent in January 2008.