{"id":63563,"date":"2020-04-03T10:19:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T05:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=63563"},"modified":"2020-06-29T17:47:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T12:47:06","slug":"inflation-rate-in-pakistan-dropped-by-2-in-march-pbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/inflation-rate-in-pakistan-dropped-by-2-in-march-pbs.html","title":{"rendered":"Inflation rate in Pakistan dropped by 2% in March: PBS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on Wednesday announced that the country&#8217;s inflation rate had dropped from 12.4% in February to 10.2% in March, according to news sources. As per the publication, the bureau associated this decline to the recent drop in the prices of essential edible items for the second consecutive month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/us-think-tank-reports-rise-pakistans-economic-freedom.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"US think tank reports rise in Pakistan\u2019s economic freedom (opens in a new tab)\">US think tank reports rise in Pakistan\u2019s economic freedom<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since July 2019, this is the first time that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=60252&amp;action=edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"inflation rate (opens in a new tab)\">inflation rate<\/a> calculated by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has registered a declining trend for two consecutive months. The factors responsible for this drop include the improved supply of edibles, and the reduced prices of energy items. The 10.2% inflation rate is the lowest figure calculated over the last seven months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-cuts-interest-rate-1-5-amid-coronavirus-pandemic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"SBP cuts interest rate by 1.5% amid coronavirus pandemic (opens in a new tab)\">SBP cuts interest rate by 1.5% amid coronavirus pandemic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The figures collected from the\nmarkets show that, even though they remained somewhat operational in the first\nhalf of the March, it will be hard to do the same in April \u2014 due to the coronavirus\noutbreak in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on Wednesday announced that the country&#8217;s inflation rate had dropped from 12.4% in February to 10.2% in March, according to news sources. As per the publication, the bureau associated this decline to the recent drop in the prices of essential edible items for the second consecutive month. Read: US think tank reports rise in Pakistan\u2019s economic freedom Since July 2019, this is the first time that the inflation rate calculated by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has registered a declining trend for two consecutive months. The factors responsible for this drop include the improved supply of edibles, and the reduced prices of energy items. The 10.2% inflation rate is the lowest figure calculated over the last seven months. Read: SBP cuts interest rate by 1.5% amid coronavirus pandemic The figures collected from the markets show that, even though they remained somewhat operational in the first half of the March, it will be hard to do the same in April \u2014 due to the coronavirus outbreak in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":60553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15017],"tags":[24996],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-63563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-notices-announcements","8":"tag-inflation-rate-in-pakistan-dropped-by-2-in-march-pbs","9":"cat-15017-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Inflation rate in Pakistan dropped by 2% in March: PBS - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on Wednesday announced that the country&#039;s inflation rate had dropped from 12.4% in February to 10.2% in\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/inflation-rate-in-pakistan-dropped-by-2-in-march-pbs.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Inflation rate in Pakistan dropped by 2% in March: PBS - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on Wednesday announced that the country&#039;s inflation rate had dropped from 12.4% in February to 10.2% in\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/inflation-rate-in-pakistan-dropped-by-2-in-march-pbs.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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