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Haiti - Economy : Index of Consumer Prices (December 2013) 27/01/2014 09:51:59 The monthly increase observed is the result of the evolution of all consumption functions such as "Food, Beverages and Tobacco" (+0.5%), "Apparel, Textiles and Footwear" (+0.4%), "Rent Housing Energy and Water "(+0.2%), "Development and maintenance of housing" (+0.3%), "Health" (+1.3%) and "Other Goods and Services" (+0.6%). Note that the "Transport" and "Leisure, Entertainment functions Education and Culture" almost stagnated (+0.1%). The function "Food, Beverages and Tobacco" which had dropped on average 0.1% over the past three months, has accelerated during the month of December 2013. The items hat contributed most to this increase are rice (+0.1%), ground corn and wheat flour (+0.2%), bread (+1.0%), meat in general, which ranged from + 0.1% to +1.2%, pasteurized milk (+2.3%), the advocate (+1.4%), sweet potatoes (+0.7%), potatoes (+0.9%), the giraumon (+4.7% ), lemon (+6.5%) and beer (+1.7%). Note that the increase in the "Clothing, Textiles and Footwear" function comes particularly from the monthly price increases of tissue (+0.7%), costume, universal jacket (+1.2%), shirts (+0.7%), pants for men (+0.5%) and dress (+0.6%). Inflationary pressures of the "Health" function is consecutive to prescription glasses (+1.0%), the fees paid to doctors (+2.9%) and laboratory analysis (+0.2%). Finally, the increase in "Other Goods and Services" is mainly due to the shampoo (+0.6%), perfume, eau de toilette (+1.2%), powder toilet (+2.2%) and to the body cream (+2.4%), others products stagnated. Situation in figures by function for the whole country (yoy) : Food, beverages and tobacco: 2.9% Clothing and fabrics, shoes: 5.9% Rent housing, energy and water: 4.7% Development and maintenance of housing: 3.5% Health: 4.2% Transport: 1.7% Leisure, entertainment, education and culture: 4.2% Other goods and services: 4.8% Situation in Figures of local products (yoy) : Food, beverages and tobacco: 3.6% Clothing and fabrics, shoes: 5.3% Rent housing, energy and water: 5.5% Development and maintenance of housing: 4.7% Health: 6.1% Transport: 0.5% Leisure, entertainment, education and culture: 3.6% Other goods and services: 1.5% Situation in Figures of imported products (yoy) : Food, beverages and tobacco: 0.7% Clothing and fabrics, shoes: 6.3% Rent housing, energy and water: 0.2% Development and maintenance of housing: 2.1% Health: 3.5% Transport: 2.6% Leisure, entertainment, education and culture: 8.8% Other goods and services 6.5% General Price Index by Region (Variation on a month) : Metropolitan Area: +0.2% (Includes Port-au-Prince, Delmas, Petion-Ville, Carrefour and Croix des Bouquets.) Rest West: +0.5% (includes departments of SouthEast and West excluding the Metropolitan Area) South: +0.4% (including the departments of North, Northeastern and Northwest) South: +0.5% (including departments of South Grand Anse and Nippes) Transversal: +0.5% (including departments of Central and Artibonite) See also : https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-10189-haiti-economy-slowing-inflation-in-haiti-november-2013.html HL/ HaitiLibre
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