The underlying fundamentals remain solid: Employers continue to add jobs at a healthy pace, unemployment has stayed low and wages are still outpacing inflation. And it’s true that Americans are ...

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Exchange Rate: 1 USD ≈ 21,575 LAK Laos imports most of their goods and a weak currency means imports are expensive to locals. Little industrialization and low economic growth prevent Kip from ...

VIENTIANE (Xinhua): Laos' inflation rate dropped to 12.7 per cent in February, down from 15.5 per cent in January, according to a report from the Lao Statistics Bureau on Thursday. The highest ...

At stake is a budget those rivals say must include spending and billions of dollars in tax cuts to address what polls show is Japanese citizens' biggest concern right now -- surging inflation.

VIENTIANE, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- Laos' inflation rate dropped to 12.7 percent in February, down from 15.5 percent in January, according to a report from the Lao Statistics Bureau on Thursday. The ...

"Even as imported inflation contributes to price rises locally, there was no need for the PAP (People's Action Party) government to add fuel to the fire and fan the flames of inflation further ...

allocating 500 million Lao kip (some US$23,800) per district. Six villages have benefited from this expansion, achieving 42.86 per cent of the target to support 14 villages in 2024. To date ...

TOKYO -- Long considered reliably affordable foods, eggs and bananas have surged in price here in recent years as businesses grow more comfortable passing on rising costs to consumers. Japan's ...

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 26 (Reuters) - South African inflation edged up in January in the first release since the statistics agency updated its consumer price basket, but the headline rate remains near ...

It has been building over years as government policies, particularly those stemming from Abenomics and the quantitative easing measures, have contributed to rising inflation, higher taxes, and a ...