The potato stopped being the most expensive food of the year after the last measurement of the IPC of the Dane. Until March, this product had been the one with the highest price increase, but in April this trend changed and its variation had a correction that now places it in second position, after the onion.
(The effect of inflation on prices of ‘corrientazo’ and empanadas).
This follows from the new report of the Consumer Price Index, which Dane presented this Thursday, and which shows that between January and April, the onion has risen 63.39%while the potato moved to second place with a variation of 55.11%.
In the third position of the most expensive products in the first four months of the year is the yucca for household consumption, which has registered an increase of 54.8%.
The list of most expensive foods is completed by bananas, with 40.53%; the tomato, with 35%; the oranges, with 30.5%; the arracacha, yams and other tuberswith 25.25%; blackberries, with 24.23%; the ricewith 22.95% and the Fresh fruitswith 19.07%.
(This is how some candidates reacted to the rise in inflation).
This strong variation in the cost of products, especially food, It has already led to this year, at the end of April, the cost of living exceeds the increase in the minimum wage (10.07%) for the segments of the population with lower incomes.
Thus, the annual variation of the CPI by income level was 11.26 percent for poor people and 11.07 percent for the vulnerable population, while for the middle class it reached 9.43 percent and in high income inflation runs at 7.46 percent through April.
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