At the grocery markets everyone speaks about inflation — both buyers and sellers, because everyone can see the price hitting his or her pockets. Previously 200 hryvnias was enough for vegetables and fruit, but today half a thousand is not enough.
The most difficult period is behind, say the Ministry of Economics. «In July and August the inflation rate slows down. Accordingly, this is good news for both businesses and consumers. As prices are stabilizing and economic life is gradually coming back to normal,» First Deputy Minister of Economy of Ukraine Denis Kudin assures.
Several factors include food inflation? The first is the exchange rate. «Imported goods are most affected by the dollar exchange rate. When the National Bank of Ukraine made a controlled weakening of the hryvnia against the dollar, there was even well such a study of the National Bank, that by 25% of the fall of the hryvnia to the dollar, it will affect inflation, somewhere at the level of 2−3 percent. On average by a year», — complements a doctor of economic sciences Vasily Furman.
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