Sri Lanka August 消費者 price インフレーション 緩和するs to 2.1%

By Uditha Jayasinghe

COLOMBO, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's 消費者 price インフレーション 率 緩和するd to 2.1% year-on-year in August from 4.6% in July, helped by 落ちるing food prices, the 統計(学) department said on Thursday.

The 国家の 消費者 Price 索引 (NCPI) 逮捕(する)s broader 小売 price インフレーション and is 解放(する)d with a lag of 21 days every month.

Food prices fell 5.4% in August after 拒絶する/低下するing 2.5% in July from a year earlier, the Department of 国勢(人口)調査 and 統計(学) said in a 声明.

Prices for 非,不,無-food items, however, climbed 9% in August after rising 10.9% year-on-year in July.

Sri Lanka's $2.9-billion bailout 安全な・保証するd from the International 通貨の 基金 (国際通貨基金) in March topped up foreign reserves -- which had dwindled to 記録,記録的な/記録する lows in 早期に 2022, 急落(する),激減(する)ing the island into its worst 財政上の 危機 in more than seven 10年間s -- and helped 安定させる the economy.

Since June, Sri Lanka´s インフレーション has come 負かす/撃墜する はっきりと from the runaway levels seen earlier, partly 予定 to the 統計に基づく base 影響, but also helped by a stronger rupee 通貨, and 改善するd 収穫s.

"Once the base-影響 ends in September, we 推定する/予想する a slight uptick in インフレーション, but it is ありそうもない to be 重要な. インフレーション is likely to end the year at about 5%," said Shehan Cooray, 長,率いる of 研究 at Acuity Stockbrokers.

An 国際通貨基金 代表 is 現在/一般に in Sri Lanka for the first review of the program, which 要求するs the country to show 進歩 in 再編成 its mammoth 負債 含むing with 二国間の/相互の 貸す人s Japan, 中国 and India.

Encouraged by インフレーション 緩和 faster than 推定する/予想するd, Sri Lanka´s central bank 削減(する) 政策 率s by a 連合させるd 450 basis poi nts in June and July this year, after raising them by a 記録,記録的な/記録する 1,050 basis points between April 2022 and March this year.

The 危機-乱打するd economy is still 推定する/予想するd to 契約 by 2% in 2023 after 縮むing 7.8% last year.

(報告(する)/憶測ing by Uditha Jayasinghe in Colombo; Editing by Bernadette Baum)

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