{"id":22752,"date":"2024-12-16T09:52:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T09:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=22752"},"modified":"2024-12-16T09:52:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T09:52:33","slug":"inflation-rate-falls-to-a-6-5-year-low-sifc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=22752","title":{"rendered":"Inflation rate falls to a 6.5-year low, SIFC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/inflation-PP.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/inflation-PP.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/inflation-PP-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/inflation-PP-768x430.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Islamabad :&nbsp; The country&#8217;s inflation rate has dropped to the lowest point of last six and half years due to efforts under Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC).&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first five months of current financial year, the average inflation receded from 28.62 percent to 7.88 percent reaching its lowest point of 4.9 percent last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On an annual basis, the inflation rate in urban areas has declined to 5.2 percent.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A sustained decrease in inflation will help ease pressure on consumers with lower food and transport costs.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad :&nbsp; The country&#8217;s inflation rate has dropped to the lowest point of last six and half years due to efforts under Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC).&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":22753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2133,533],"class_list":["post-22752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-inflation-in-pakistan","tag-special-investment-facilitation-council-sifc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22754,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22752\/revisions\/22754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}