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(prensa.com) Goods and services, transportation, food and beverages were the three main components of the CPI to rise further in December 2010. The Panamanians have just closed a series of generalized increases in goods and services.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) ended last December with an increase of 4.9% compared with December 2009. Goods and services (6.7%), transport (6.5%), food and beverages (5.1%) were the three main components of the CPI rise last December that reported increased compared to December 2009, according to the Comptroller General the Republic.
When analyzing the behavior of annual price increases are a constant, since 2010 the CPI recorded an increase of 3.5% compared to the year 2009.
Domestic policies such as increased taxes, higher minimum wage and the projection of new social insurance charges are able to pass on the increases of 2010.
Gaspar García de Paredes, director of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, warns that the increases are merely a reflection of a country whose economy depends heavily on expensive imports.
“We are a country that depends on a number of commodities, like oil, grains and finished products that are affected by the situation of soaring international prices,” he said.
This 2011 could be another year of setting up, because oil has continued to rise and climate change have pushed for some raw The business sector is in favor of that working to improve the competitiveness of the country and not be so dependent on external sources.
Pedro Acosta, a leader of consumers indicates that the best advice to citizens in these times of inflation is to be more responsible, rational and intelligent at the time of consumption.