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Haiti - Economy : Increase in the living costs of 0,4% in July 2012 29/08/2012 09:34:28
The monthly variation recorded results from the upward trend in all functions of consumption: "Food Beverages and Tobacco" (0.2%) "Clothing and Textiles, Footwear" (1.0%), "Rent Housing, Energy and Water "(0.7%), "Equipment, Maintenance of the Housing" (0.3%), "Health" (0.6%), "Transport" (0.3%), "Leisure, Entertainment, Education and Culture" (0.5%) and "Other Goods and Services" (0.5%). The increase in "Food, Beverages and Tobacco" comes particularly of rice prices (0.5%), of the wheat flour (0.4%), of spaghetti (0.7%), of bread (0.4%) of beef (1.5%) of smoked herring (5.0%), salt herring (5.0%), cod (2.5%), of the chayote (3.6%), green pea (0.8%), malanga (4.5%), and papaya (1.9%). The increase found for "Clothing and Textiles, Footwear," is in inflation because of the behavior of products such as fabrics (2.7%), pants (0.7%), dress (1.2%), petticoat (0.7%), shoes and tennis (0.9%) and sandals (1.3%). The index of "Rent Housing, Energy and Water" is mainly due to the increase of the rent of housing, which rose 1.7%. The growth of the index "Health" is consecutive to the prices of prescription glasses (2.5%), fees paid to physicians (1.1%), laboratory tests, X-rays (0.2%) and hospitalization (0.3%). HL/ HaitiLibre
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