year at current prices during 2008-2013. [NRB Working Paper No. 20] …

Inflation management is one of the hardest tasks an economic policymaker has to undertake. It appears, at first sight …, that one can rely entirely on commonsense to carry out this task. But that will be a cardinal mistake. While inflation … understanding of economic theory. This paper tries to bring together the formal analytics that underlie inflation policy. It surveys …

Standard errors (S.Es.) of month on month and year on year inflation in Pakistan are estimated based on data for the … mechanism is developed to estimate S.E. of period average headline inflation using these approaches. This mechanism is then … applied to estimate S.Es. of 12-month average inflation in Pakistan for July 2003 to June 2010. The systematic changes in the …

A review of the various primary measures of inflation with a particular reference to the divergence between WPI and CPI …. Focus is also given on different secondary (derived) measures of inflation, particularly core inflation, and end the …

In India, there is a large divergence between CPI and WPI inflation trends in the past, wide dispersion in inflation … across commodity groups within WPI, and significant volatility in headline WPI inflation under the influence of supply shocks …, the statistical limitations of prices data have received increasing attention in the policy debates. This paper presents …

the household, (2) access to infrastructure, (3) changes in rice prices, (4) peace situation, and (5) initial household …