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Vietnam February consumer price index rises 5.4% year-on-year: statistics office

Feb 29th at 19:49
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Vietnam February consumer price index rises 5.4% year-on-year: statistics office

Vietnam’s consumer price index in February rose 5.4 percent from a year earlier, led by an increase in the cost of food, housing and education services, government data released on Saturday showed. 

The cost of food and food services rose 9.32 percent in the period, while the cost of education services was up 4.65 percent, the General Statistics Office (GSO) said in a statement.

Compared with last month, the consumer price index fell 0.17 percent, the GSO said.

It increased 1.06 percent from the end of last year.

Core inflation - excluding food, energy, health care and education prices - rose 2.94 percent in February from a year earlier and was up 0.17 percent from January, the GSO said.

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