{"id":47674,"date":"2023-03-11T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T08:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/food-prices-increase-by-42-4-percent-in-february-2023\/"},"modified":"2023-03-13T15:24:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T15:24:16","slug":"food-prices-increase-by-42-4-percent-in-february-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/food-prices-increase-by-42-4-percent-in-february-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Food prices increase by 42.4 percent in February 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to released figures, in February 2023, Food and non-alcoholic beverages increased by 42.4 percent on annual basis and increased by 4.7 percent on monthly basis. \u2018Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels\u2019 increased by 7.1 percent on annual basis and increased by 0.9 percent on monthly basis. Transport increased by 12.1 percent on annual basis and decreased by 0.1 percent on monthly basis.<\/p>\n<p>The data also show the \u201clocal products\u201d increased by 21.9 percent on annual change and increased by 2.3 percent on monthly basis, while prices of the \u201cimported products\u201d increased by 17.5 percent on annual basis and increased by 0.4 percent on monthly basis.<\/p>\n<p>The prices of the \u201cfresh products\u201d increased by 48.7 percent on annual change and increased by 7.3 percent on monthly basis.<\/p>\n<p>The prices of the \u201cenergy\u201d increased by 15.4 percent on annual change and increased by 1.2 percent on monthly basis.<\/p>\n<p>The prices of the \u201cgeneral Index excluding fresh products and energy\u201d increased by 14.4 percent on annual change and increased by 0.3 percent on monthly basis.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-46665 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/c07a0007-e4624-c26c3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda has announced that Rwanda\u2019s Consumer Price Index (CPI), the main gauge of inflation increased by 20.8 percent year on year in February 2023 up from 20.7 percent in January 2023.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-47674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47674"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=47674"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=47674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}