Inflation with Disinflation? Decoding India's Inflation Indices

Inflation with Disinflation? Decoding India's Inflation Indices

Price inflation in India as measured by the Wholesale Price Index and the Consumer Price Index has shown diverging trends. While WPI indicates a disinflationary situation for 16. months, CPI indicates inflation. Explaning the construction the two indices, the trends of subgroups of both indices are...

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Veröffentlicht in:Economic and political weekly 2016-04, Vol.51 (18), p.122-127
1. Verfasser: LINGAREDDY, TULSI
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Beverages
Commodities
Consumer Price Index
Consumer price indexes
Consumers
Deflation (Economics)
ECONOMIC NOTES
Food products
Inflation
Mineral oils
Organic chemicals
Trends
Wholesale Price Index-US
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Zusammenfassung:Price inflation in India as measured by the Wholesale Price Index and the Consumer Price Index has shown diverging trends. While WPI indicates a disinflationary situation for 16. months, CPI indicates inflation. Explaning the construction the two indices, the trends of subgroups of both indices are presented. It is found that the different sample sizes and weightages of commodity groups of both indices and price intervantion in the market explains, at least in part, this odd situation of inflation along with disinflation.
ISSN:0012-9976
2349-8846