{"id":134491,"date":"2023-05-22T14:54:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T21:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=134491"},"modified":"2023-05-22T14:54:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T21:54:05","slug":"sri-lankas-consumer-inflation-dips-to-33-6-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/05\/22\/sri-lankas-consumer-inflation-dips-to-33-6-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s consumer inflation dips to 33.6% in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s National Consumer Price Index (NCPI) inflation eased to 33.6% year-on-year in April, after a 49.2% rise in March, the statistics department said on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0dbd\u0ddc\u0d9a\u0dd4 \u0db4\u0ddc\u0da9\u0dd2 \u0dc4\u0dd0\u0db8\u0ddd\u0da7\u0db8 \u0db6\u0dd0\u0da7 \u0daf\u0dd4\u0db1\u0dca \u0d8b\u0daf\u0dca\u0db0\u0db8\u0db1\u0dba \u0dc4\u0daf\u0dd2\u0dc3\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dda\u0db8 \u0dc3\u0dd2\u0daf\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0dd6 \u0dc0\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dc3 \u0db8\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yMMvZrJd_90?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The NCPI captures broader retail price inflation and is released with a lag of 21 days every month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Food prices eased sharply to 27.1% in April from 42.3% in March, while non-food inflation was at 39%, the Department of Census and Statistics said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The data comes as an International Monetary Fund team is in Colombo to evaluate Sri Lanka\u2019s economy for the first time since the global lender approved a nearly $3 billion bailout in March for Sri Lanka, grappling with its worst financial crisis in seven decades because of economic mismanagement and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Colombo Consumer Price Index, released at the end of each month, dropped to 35.3% in April from 50.3% in March, data from the statistics department showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: Reuters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8211;Agencies<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka\u2019s National Consumer Price Index (NCPI) inflation eased to 33.6% year-on-year in April, after a 49.2% rise in March, the statistics department said on Monday. The NCPI captures broader retail price inflation and is released with a lag of 21 days every month. Food prices eased sharply to 27.1% in April from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}