Today, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) published data on the level of the consumer price index in February, according to which deflation in Bulgaria deepened to 2.6% on an annual basis from 2.2% in January, reaching a seven-month high. Maria Ivanova from Capital commented on the data as follows: From an economic point of view, deflation is a problem, …
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Very soon, the NSI released the inflation data for 2013, which were interpreted on the same day on BNT in the following way: "We have recorded the lowest annual inflation in 23 years. According to the National Statistics Office, this is a deflation of 1.6 percent." [1] It turns out that the data is for December...
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