{"id":528924,"date":"2025-05-12T18:44:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benews.fr\/en\/?p=528818"},"modified":"2025-05-12T18:44:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:44:54","slug":"benin-slight-rise-in-april-inflation-driven-by-food-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/benin-slight-rise-in-april-inflation-driven-by-food-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Benin: slight rise in April inflation driven by food prices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Benin&#8217;s Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) rose moderately by <strong>0.3%<\/strong> in April, reaching <strong>103.0<\/strong>, according to data released Friday by the National Institute of Statistics and Demography (INSTAD).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The increase was primarily driven by a <strong>1.5% rise in food and non-alcoholic beverage prices<\/strong>, which was partially offset by a <strong>1.5% drop in transportation costs<\/strong>, notably due to a <strong>3.6% decrease in gasoline prices<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, <strong>core inflation<\/strong>\u2014which excludes seasonal and energy-related products\u2014<strong>edged down slightly<\/strong>, from <strong>101.6 in March to 101.5 in April<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benin&#8217;s Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) rose moderately by 0.3% in April, reaching 103.0, according to data released Friday by the National Institute of Statistics and Demography (INSTAD). The increase was primarily driven by a 1.5% rise in food and non-alcoholic beverage prices, which was partially offset by a 1.5% drop in transportation costs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":527368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"pays":[119],"personnalite":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-528924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-company-news-benews","8":"pays-benin"},"acf":{"type_de_publication":"opinion","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528924"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=528924"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=528924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}