{"id":48843,"date":"2023-09-11T06:37:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T06:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-s-inflation-increases-by-12-3-percent-in-august-2023\/"},"modified":"2023-09-14T11:20:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T11:20:02","slug":"rwanda-s-inflation-increases-by-12-3-percent-in-august-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-s-inflation-increases-by-12-3-percent-in-august-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda&#8217;s inflation increases by 12.3 percent in August 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2023, the category of &#8216;Food and non-alcoholic beverages&#8217; witnessed a substantial annual increase of 24.6 percent, along with a monthly rise of 1.8 percent. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, &#8216;Alcoholic beverages, tobacco, and narcotics&#8217; registered a 12.2 percent annual increase but saw a 1 percent decrease on a monthly basis. Transport costs increased by 7 percent annually and by 2.5 percent on a monthly scale.<\/p>\n<p>The data also revealed that &#8220;local products&#8221; experienced a 13.3 percent annual increase and a 0.6 percent monthly increase. On the other hand, the prices of &#8220;imported products&#8221; rose by 9.3 percent annually and by 1.5 percent monthly. <\/p>\n<p>Prices for &#8220;fresh products&#8221; surged by 29.8 percent year-on-year and 2.7 percent month-on-month.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, &#8220;energy&#8221; prices increased by 3.2 percent annually and 0.3 percent on a monthly basis. <\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;general Index excluding fresh products and energy&#8221; also saw an increase of 8.4 percent on an annual basis, with a 0.3 percent monthly increment.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-59578\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/49686089673_216bea0a00_b-b2d43.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) has reported that the country&#8217;s Consumer Price Index (CPI), the main gauge of inflation, increased by 12.3 percent year on year in August 2023 up from 11.9 percent in July 2023.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000059577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-48843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-featured-news-home","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":{"id":2000059577,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/49686089673_216bea0a00_b-b2d43.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/49686089673_216bea0a00_b-b2d43.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/49686089673_216bea0a00_b-b2d43.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/49686089673_216bea0a00_b-b2d43.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/49686089673_216bea0a00_b-b2d43.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/49686089673_216bea0a00_b-b2d43.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48843","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=48843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000059577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48843"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=48843"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=48843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}