{"id":137153,"date":"2023-09-21T15:38:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T22:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=137153"},"modified":"2023-09-21T15:40:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T22:40:29","slug":"sri-lankas-august-consumer-price-inflation-eases-to-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/09\/21\/sri-lankas-august-consumer-price-inflation-eases-to-2-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s August consumer price inflation eases to 2.1%"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s consumer price inflation rate eased to 2.1% year-on-year in August from 4.6% in July, helped by falling food prices, the statistics department said on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Consumer Price Index (NCPI) captures broader retail price inflation and is released with a lag of 21 days every month.<\/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=\"\u0d85\u0daf \u0d8b\u0daf\u0dca\u0db0\u0db8\u0db1\u0dba \u0dc0\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dc3\u0dca \u0dc0\u0dd6 \u0dc4\u0dd0\u0da7\u0dd2... \u0d9a\u0dd4\u0d9a\u0dd4\u0dc5\u0dd4 \u0db8\u0dc3\u0dca \u0db8\u0dd2\u0dbd\u0dad\u0dca \u0db4\u0dc4\u0dc5\u0da7\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l1mcEHf-eto?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>Sri Lanka\u2019s economy shrank 3.1% in Q2 amid financial crisis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Food prices fell 5.4% in August after declining 2.5% in July from a year earlier, the Department of Census and Statistics said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prices for non-food items, however, climbed 9% in August after rising 10.9% year-on-year in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s consumer price inflation rate eased to 2.1% year-on-year in August from 4.6% in July, helped by falling food prices, the statistics department said on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Consumer Price Index (NCPI) captures broader retail price inflation and is released with a lag of 21 days every month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s economy shrank 3.1% in Q2 amid financial crisis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Food prices fell 5.4% in August after declining 2.5% in July from a year earlier, the Department of Census and Statistics said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prices for non-food items, however, climbed 9% in August after rising 10.9% year-on-year in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka\u2019s consumer price inflation rate eased to 2.1% year-on-year in August from 4.6% in July, helped by falling food prices, the statistics department said on Thursday. The National Consumer Price Index (NCPI) captures broader retail price inflation and is released with a lag of 21 days every month. Sri Lanka\u2019s economy shrank [&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-137153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137153","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=137153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}