The consumer price index (CPI) measures the rate at which the prices of consumer goods and services are changing over time. It is a key statistic for economic and social policymaking and has substantial and wide-ranging implications for governments, businesses, and households. This important and...

In this study, the following statistical data are presented in detail: agriculture, livestock, and fishery production, structure of revenue, monetary survey, reserve money, interest rates, central government operations, profile of the commercial bank system, consumer price index, foreign debt,...

Contents include--The real economy: background and recent developments; public finance; fiscal developments during 1994-95 and budgetary policy in 1996; Money and banking; structure of the banking system;monetary policy instruments; monetary developments; and issues in banking supervision; the...