Food, fuel prices jump again

25 October 2011
The Phnom Penh Post
Disaster preparedness and emergency response policy and administration / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources
commodities / Economics / flood damages / Food / Fuel / goods / Imports / Inflation / market / National Institute of Statistics / petrol / price increases / Prices

Heightened global food and fuel prices continued to inflate Cambodia’s market in September, and experts said flood damages would elevate costs further toward the end of the year. Year-on-year inflation hit 6.7 per cent in last month, up 1 per cent from August, according to data released yesterday from the National Institute of Statistics. The price of imported commodities and goods accounted for the most significant price increases in the Kingdom, the data showed. Petrol increased 19.8 per cent year-on-year, while meat prices climbed 20.6 per cent higher than their cost a year earlier…

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