Imran keeps silent on shooting prices in KPK, as PTI picks Lahore for protest against inflation

[SBD-3]

Food and perishables are directly effected by higher production/transportation costs which are result of increased electricity tariff, fuel and inflation increase due to currency printing (this is the biggest killer).
Inflation is a very complicated phenomena and bloody thing affect almost everything.

Do check the stats in PBS report it shows the CPI increase to food items as well that you mentioned.

Well I don't know if milk production and vegitables need any plant which would require such thing. However, suppose electricity cost accounts for, say 10% of something which weighs 2% in CPI basket. The net impact will be 0.2% on inflation (called energy effect). However, if you see the headline hasn't steepened as much as food which includes raw food supplies and contain minimal energy effect. And since food markets are mostly geographically constained, thus they fall under the preview of provincial government like in Sindh and Punjab, the provincial government controls the prices of food, not the federal government.

 

[Crypto]

Well I don't know if milk production and vegitables need any plant which would require such thing. However, suppose electricity cost accounts for, say 10% of something which weighs 2% in CPI basket. The net impact will be 0.2% on inflation (called energy effect). However, if you see the headline hasn't steepened as much as food which includes raw food supplies and contain minimal energy effect. And since food markets are mostly geographically constained, thus they fall under the preview of provincial government like in Sindh and Punjab, the provincial government controls the prices of food, not the federal government.

Up-to some extent you are right.
Again if you look at the report, biggest increase has been in food items 34%; compared to others. Why did that happen if it was that easy to keep food prices in check by provinces?

 

[SBD-3]

Up-to some extent you are right.
Again if you look at the report, biggest increase has been in food items 34%; compared to others. Why did that happen if it was that easy to keep food prices in check by provinces?

34% is not the increase but the % of composition of CPI basket 9.08% is the YoY change.

 

[Crypto]

34% is not the increase but the % of composition of CPI basket 9.08% is the YoY change.

My bad, 35% is subsidy slashes not increase in food.
You can appreciate from numbers that out of total CPI basket majority commodities which make a big percentage has increased.

The original issue stands that we are close to double figure inflation and provinces can't do jack about it.

 

[Asian.Century]

• Anyone has got the daily items price list for now?

What happened in Lhr after Minar-e-Pakistan?