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Maputo has maintained the position of most expensive city until the 11th month of this year, according to the estimates of the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
The old Lourenço Marques reached 4.11 per cent of accumulated inflation until November, relegating to the second place the city of Beira with 3.03 per cent, and Nampula with 1.28 per cent.
This is always the trend. Whenever the festive court knocks on the door, product prices change considerably, differing from context to context, from city to city. And this year was no different.
Despite having the lowest inflation among the provinces analyzed (in the order of 0.01 per cent in November), Maputo City stood out as the most expensive from January to November this year (with an inflation rate of 4.11 per cent ), according to data from INE.
At the same time as cities become more expensive as the months go by, this trend also accelerates the cost of living for the poorest people, who are increasingly unable to buy essential products for their survival.
In addition, rising inflation in the main cities of the country is linked to a 3.14 per cent increase in prices.
From January to November, 2018, Mozambicans saw an increase in the cost of transportation, food and hotels, among others, which contributed between 0.66 and 1.90 percentage points (pp) to the cost of living in cities, according to INE.
Analysing the accumulated inflation per product up to November, “we must highlight the rise in the prices of semi-urban transport, urban and suburban passenger, gasoline, full meals in restaurants, diesel, second-hand vehicles, charcoal and horse mackerel,” says INE, adding that the “impact on total cumulative inflation estimated at about 2.50 pp positive.”
Compared to the same period of the previous year, the country recorded a price increase of around 4.27 per cent. The Health and Transport divisions stood out at around 12.63 per cent and 11.72 per cent respectively.
The data collected in the cities of Maputo, Beira and Nampula during November indicate that the country registered a general price increase of 0.27 per cent, compared to the previous month.
In November, the food and non-alcoholic beverages division dictated the overall price trend, contributing about 0.18 pp to the positive.
In a detailed way, this month stands out with “the increase in prices of tomato (8.5 per cent), fresh fish (1.9 per cent), meals at restaurants (0.6 per cent), coconut (7,3 per cent), ladies shirts (6.2 per cent), detergent powder (0.1 per cent) and rice (1.4 per cent), which together accounted for a contribution in total monthly inflation of about 0.30pp positive,” says the INE.
However, some products such as food oil (1.9 per cent), gasoline (0.4 per cent), fresh shrimp (9.9 per cent), chicken eggs (3.9 per cent), frozen chicken (0.7 per cent), dry fish (0.5 per cent) and cassava flour (8.6 per cent), offset the general upward trend in prices by jointly contributing total monthly inflation of about 0.12 pp negative.
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