30 Aug 2015
(MENAFN) Qatar’s consumer price index (CPI) inflation remained flat in the January-July period of 2015, with expectations that it averaged 1.5 percent compared to 3.1 percent in 2014.
The lower inflation was mainly due to falling rents as well as lower foreign inflation owing to declining international food prices. Forecasts point out that inflation will bottom out this year, before picking up in 2016-17.
Foreign inflation has been lower this year as global food prices have been on a gradual declining path since their peak in the summer of 2012. Prices in the other components of foreign inflation also remained weak.
Meanwhile, domestic inflationary pressures have been weak despite strong population growth, mainly due to housing inflation, slowing to 2.3 percent in the period, down from an expectation of 4.6 percent.
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