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**Pakistan’s Weekly Inflation Drops by 0.35pc**
Pakistan saw a slight easing of inflationary pressure this week, with the Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) showing a decrease of 0.35 percent for the week ending March 20th. This data comes from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS).
The SPI, which tracks the prices of 51 essential items across 17 urban centers, registered at 319.62 points, down from 320.75 points the previous week. Compared to the same week last year, the SPI is down by 1.20 percent. The SPI uses 2015-16 as its base year (with a value of 100).
All income groups experienced this slight decrease in weekly inflation. The lowest income group (earning up to Rs. 17,732) saw a 0.39 percent drop in their SPI. The other income groups, ranging from Rs. 17,732 to over Rs. 44,175, also saw decreases between 0.35 and 0.40 percent.
Of the 51 items tracked, prices for 11 items (21.57%) increased, 18 items (35.29%) decreased, and 22 items (43.14%) remained unchanged.
**Price Decreases (Week-on-Week):**
The most significant price drops were seen in:
* Tomatoes (7.08%)
* Onions (6.07%)
* Garlic (5.59%)
* Eggs (4.64%)
* Potatoes (2.50%)
* Pulse Gram (1.60%)
* Tea Lipton (1.30%)
* Sugar (0.87%)
* Firewood (0.60%)
**Price Increases (Week-on-Week):**
Notable price increases were observed in:
* Lawn Printed (2.90%)
* LPG (1.53%)
* Bananas (1.45%)
* Long Cloth(1.23%)
* Bread (0.55%)
* Cigarettes (0.27%)
* Beef (0.25%)
* Curd (0.24%)
* Salt Powder (0.03%)
**Year-on-Year Changes:**
Looking at the bigger picture, some items have seen substantial price drops compared to last year:
* Onions (67.67%)
* Wheat Flour (35.58%)
* Tomatoes (29.45%)
* Chilies Powder (20.00%)
* Electricity Charges for Q1 (18.92%)
* Tea Lipton (16.98%)
* Pulse Mash(13.96%)
* Pulse Masoor (11.69%)
* Rice Basmati Broken (9.81%)
* Diesel (9.37%)
* Petrol (8.55%)
* LPG (5.30%)
However, other items have become significantly more expensive over the past year:
* Ladies Sandal (75.09%)
* Pulse Moong (26.96%)
* Powdered Milk (25.75%)
* Beef (21.01%)
* Sugar (18.65%)
* Chicken (18.23%)
* Pulse Gram (17.83%)
* Vegetable Ghee 1 Kg (16.13%)
* Bananas (15.73%)
* Lawn Printed (12.28%)
* Shirting (12.20%)
* Georgette(11.20%)