Poland: CPI up in February 2023

Prices of consumer goods and services (Consumer Price Index, CPI) increased by 18.4% YoY and by 1.2% MoM in February, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported on March 15. Economists polled by PAP Business estimated that February’s CPI would reach 18.7% YoY and would decrease by 0.9% MM. In January, the prices of consumer goods…

Poland: further rate hikes rather unlikely

Adam Glapinski, governor of the National Bank of Poland (NBP), has assessed that amid inflation forecasts it has become unlikely that the Monetary Policy Council (RPP), NBP’s rate-setting body, will increase interest rates. “Taking into account the results of the inflation projection, one might say that further hikes are becoming increasingly less likely,” Glapinski wrote…

Georgia: inflation to decrease in case of no shocks

The downward trend of inflation in the Georgian economy will continue in case of absence of further shocks, Archil Mestvirishvili, the Vice President of the National Bank of Georgia, has said. Mestvirishvili said the domestic economy passed the peak of inflation in 2021, noting expectations were influenced by exchange rate and inflation dynamics. “Higher salary…