{"id":212148,"date":"2019-04-10T14:48:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T17:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=212148"},"modified":"2019-06-30T12:36:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T15:36:49","slug":"inflation-in-brazil-climbed-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/inflation-in-brazil-climbed-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation in Brazil climbed in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rio de Janeiro &#8211; The Extended National Consumer Price Index (IPCA, acronym in Portuguese) increased to 0.75% in March this year. In February, the rate was 0.43%. The rate was also higher than the 0.09% of March last year. IPCA is the official indicator of inflation in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>According to data published this Wednesday (10) by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibge.gov.br\/en\/home-eng.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IBGE<\/a>, acronym in Portuguese), the cumulative change in the year is 1.51%, while the cumulative rate for the last 12 months went to 4.58%.<\/p>\n<p>Last month\u2019s rate was the highest for March since 2015 (1.32%). The cumulative in the year is the highest for the first quarter since 2016 (2.62%). The cumulative for 12 months is the highest since February 2017 (4.76%).<\/p>\n<p>According to IBGE, inflation in March was heavily influenced by the higher prices in foods and beverages (1.37%) and transports (1.44%), which accounted for 80% for the inflation rate in the month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-212146\">Marcelo Camargo\/Ag\u00eancia Brasil<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extended National Consumer Price Index increased to 0.75%. It was the highest rate for March since 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":212146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[27180,2344,3055,1847,3916],"class_list":{"0":"post-212148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-ibge-en-2","9":"tag-ibge","10":"tag-inflation","11":"tag-ipca","12":"tag-prices"},"wps_subtitle":"Extended National Consumer Price Index increased to 0.75%. It was the highest rate for March since 2015.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}