Poland: CPI up in December 2022

Prices of consumer goods and services (Consumer Price Index, CPI) increased by 16.6% YoY and by 0.1% MoM in December 2022, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported on January 13. In a flash estimate, GUS said that December 2022 CPI would reach 16.6% YoY and 0.2% MoM. In November 2022, the prices of consumer goods…

Poland: inflation to fall by Q3 2023

Decrease of inflation to 16.6% in December 2022 was mainly due to the effect of lower heating costs, Jakub Rybacki from the Polish Economic Institute (PIE) said. As announced on January 13 by the Central Statistical Office (GUS), inflation in December 2022 amounted to 16.6% YoY. A month earlier, it stood at 17.5%. According to…

Georgia: external trade up in 2022

Georgian external trade turnover amounted to $19.04 billion in 2022, up by 32.8% YoY, the Georgian National Statistics Office revealed. The value of exports rose by 31.8% and equaled $5.59 billion, while imports grew by 33.2%, amounting to $13.45 billion in 2022. Trade deficit reached $7.85 billion, and the share of trade turnover hit 41.3%.…

Poland: Ukrainians biggest foreign employee group

The largest number of foreigners working in Poland are Ukrainians, the family and social policy minister has said. Marlena Malag cited data from ZUS, Poland’s main insurer, which showed that 1,063,300 foreigners were legally employed in Poland in December 2022, a rise by 191,700 from January 2022. Malag noted the majority were Ukrainian refugees who…

Moldova: consumer prices up in 2022

In 2022, consumer prices in 2022 increased on average by 28.7% YoY. The National Statistics Bureau (BNS) unveiled the data. At the same time, in December 2022, compared to the same month in 2021, average consumer prices increased by 30.2%. The increase was influenced in particular by the increase in the prices of food products…