UAE inflation hits 11.1pc on commodity costs.Byline: Dubai(Image: wam.gif ) The UAECOs inflation hit 11.1 per cent in 2007 mainly due to the steep hike in the prices of goods and services In economics, economic output is divided into physical goods and intangible services. Consumption of goods and services is assumed to produce utility (unless the "good" is a "bad"). It is often used when referring to a Goods and Services Tax. , a minister said citing a research conducted by the Ministry of Economy's consumer price index (CPI (1) (Characters Per Inch) The measurement of the density of characters per inch on tape or paper. A printer's CPI button switches character pitch. (2) (Counts Per I ) division. The figure was derived by measuring the percentage change in prices of a representative basket of goods and services consumed by the average UAE (Uninterruptible Application Error) The name given to a crash in Windows 3.0. In subsequent versions of Windows, a crash was called a "General Protection Fault," "Application Error" or "Illegal Operation." See crash in Windows and abend. household. CPI research revealed that the 2007 rate resulted from varying increases in the consumer prices of all expenditure groups. The 'House Rent and Related House Items' category recorded the highest gain among all groups at 17.5 per cent, followed by 'other goods and services' at 16.8 per cent. Increases in the average prices of other expenditure items ranged from 3 to 8 per cent, Sultan SULTAN. The title of the Turkish sovereign and other Mahometan princes. Bin Saeed Al Mansouri, UAE minister of economy, said. Al Mansouri highlighted the importance of the inflation index derived from the CPI. He described it as an essential and widely-used government tool to draft policies on salary and wages and to adjust consumer income in areas such as transfer payments to social welfare recipients. He added that the index was vital for consumer protection analysis. "The 'House Rent and Related House Items' group currently has the highest weight in the CPI at 36 per cent. Based on the actual contribution of the expenditure groups to the 2007 inflation rate, the category emerged as the main cause of inflation, comprising 6.5 per cent of the total 11.1 per cent inflation figure or around 58.6 per cent." "Other Goods and Services" followed at 1.4 per cent of the total percentage or about 12.8 per cent contribution. The other expenditure groups comprised less than 1 per cent to total inflation. The CPI Division identified two basic factors that made the rent and household item category a major inflationary in·fla·tion·ar·y adj. Of, associated with, or tending to cause inflation: inflationary prices; inflationary policies. Adj. 1. source: a significant increase in rental rates in 2007 and the large weight of the category in household expenditure. Al Mansouri further explained that the CPI used to measure inflation is based on a consumer basket The basket of consumer goods or consumer basket is the market basket intended for tracking the prices of consumer goods and services, i.e., it is a sample of goods and services, offered at the consumer market. derived from the results of the 1997 'Household Expenditure and Income Survey.' The index is thus outdated out·dat·ed adj. Out-of-date; old-fashioned. outdated Adjective old-fashioned or obsolete Adj. 1. since various goods and services currently consumed by households did not exist during the survey period. The MoE thus established its CPI Division in c-oordination with the International Monetary Fund to upgrade the indexing system. The enhancement of the CPI will involve several phases, the most important of which is the latest Household Expenditure and Income Survey. Survey results will be used to construct a new consumer basket which will reflect current consumption trends in the UAE. Monthly inflation figures based on the new consumer basket will be available by early 2009. Local governments are presently attempting to contain inflation by capping annual rent increases at various levels. The MoE itself has implemented various inflation-related initiatives over the past months, such as convincing cooperatives and private retailers to fix the prices of basic commodities which constitute around 70 per cent of retail trade in the UAE. The Ministry also recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is a legal document describing a bilateral or multilateral agreement between parties. It expresses a convergence of will between the parties, indicating an intended common line of action and may not imply a legal commitment. with several local cement producers to increase production and thus reduce the prices of building materials Building materials used in the construction industry to create . These categories of materials and products are used by and construction project managers to specify the materials and methods used for . . The ministry has also exempted cement and steel from custom duties at all UAE ports.- TradeArabia News Service A[umlaut umlaut (  m`lout) [Ger.,=transformed sound], in inflection, variation of vowels of the type of English man to men. ] Copyright 2007 www.tradearabia.com
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