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July Inflation Registers at 0.93%

Costa Rica registered a monthly inflation of 0.93% in July.

This rate represents a slight decrease from June’s inflation rate of 0.96% and the July inflation rates reported in 2005 (1.28%) and 2004 (1.30%), according to the National Statistics and Census Institute (INEC). Inflation over the past 12 months was 12.44% and registered 6.28% for the first six months of this year; inflation for 2005 was 14.07%.

 

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