Tag: CPI

Inflation hits 9.41 per cent, highest in five years

--Energy costs in particular have risen sharply, hit by a series of devaluations of the rupee   ISLAMABAD: Consumer price inflation rose in March to its highest...

NAB chief’s claim of Pakistan’s improving CPI ranking proven false

National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Justice (r) Javed Iqbal’s claim of Pakistan having been pushed from 175th place to 116th place on Corruption Perceptions...

Census rolls on with obsolete data management method

The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) is pursuing an almost obsolete method of open source solution based on the Open Data Kit (ODK). So...

Policy/discount rates remained at 5.75pc: SBP

by Arshad Hussain The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Saturday maintained the policy/discount rates had remained unchanged at 5.75 percent owing to the stability in...

CPI clocks in at 4.12% year-on-year in July

    Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation for the month of July 2016 stood at 4.1 per cent year-on-year (YoY), which is a 19-month high and...

CPI inflation remains below expectations at 3.2%

  The country’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) clocked in at 3.2 per cent year-on-year (YoY) during 11 months of the current fiscal year compared to...