Tag: INE

• Friday, October 4th 2013 - 06:47 UTC

  Uruguay’s annual inflation in September reached 9.02%; minister confident it will be brought down

  

  Uruguay’s consumer inflation soared 1.36% over August in September boosted by increases in energy and fuel, transport, milk and other basic items, according to the latest release from INE, the government’s data office. This means inflation in the last twelve months climbed to 9.02% from a month ago (8.86%) and 8.2% in the first nine months of 2013.

• Wednesday, September 4th 2013 - 00:36 UTC

  Food, education and healthcare rising prices keep Uruguay’s inflation out of target

  

  Uruguay’s inflation in August kept climbing and reached 1.04%, totalling 6.74% in the first eight months of the year and 8.86% in the last twelve months, which is well above the Central bank target of 4% to 6%, according to the latest report from the local Statistics Office, INE.

• Friday, August 9th 2013 - 04:51 UTC

  Piñera apologizes to the Chilean people for the flawed 2012 census

  

  President Sebastian Piñera asked Chileans to forgive him for a 2012 census that a review panel found to be so flawed it should be thrown out, a political embarrassment for his government months before a general election.

• Tuesday, August 6th 2013 - 03:05 UTC

  Inflation in Uruguay remains ever so far from the Central bank annual target

  

  Consumer prices in Uruguay during July increased 0.77% while twelve-month inflation reached 8.75%, which is the highest since last February, and well ahead of the 8.21% to June, according to the latest release from the country’s National Stats Institute, INE.

• Friday, May 24th 2013 - 07:45 UTC

  Toilet paper shortage is because ‘Venezuelans are eating more’ argues the government

  

  A few hours after the Venezuelan congress voted a 79 million dollars credit for the import of 39 million rolls of toilet paper and other personal hygiene items, the government of President Nicolas Maduro said this was because “Venezuelans are eating more”.

• Thursday, April 4th 2013 - 07:56 UTC

  Uruguay reports lower inflation in March but the first quarter index was 3.59%

  

  Uruguay consumer prices climbed 0.66% during March totalling 3.59% in the first quarter of the year and 8.54% in the last twelve months, according to a Wednesday release from the National Stats Office, INE.

• Monday, October 22nd 2012 - 19:45 UTC

  A fifth of Spaniards living below the poverty shows latest stats

  

  Every fifth resident lives in poverty in Spain, new figures showed on Monday.
  The national statistics institute INE said 21.1% of the 47-million population lives below the poverty line, meaning they live on less than 7,355 Euros (9,610 dollars) annually.

• Monday, October 15th 2012 - 22:17 UTC

  Spain has lost a million people since January 2011 because of the recession

  

  Condemned by recession, almost a million persons have left Spain since January last year according to a report from the country’s National Statistics Institute, INE, which also points out that the trend has intensified in the first nine months of this year.

• Wednesday, July 4th 2012 - 06:05 UTC

  Inflation in Uruguay remains strong, reaches 4.13% in the first six months

  

  With a marginal descent, Uruguay’s annual inflation in the twelve months to June reached 8% compared to May’s, 8.06%, but still two percentage points above the Central bank upper cap target.

• Friday, May 4th 2012 - 06:19 UTC

  Uruguay’s April inflation spikes and remains well above the annual target

  

  Uruguay's annual consumer inflation accelerated in April owing to a big increase in food, clothing and transportation prices, reported the government’s statistics office, INE on Thursday.