Business Environment by Pearson

over January 17, 2007), however, nine of these commodities witnessed a deceleration in in ation,

when compared to a deceleration in prices of four commodities in the previous year (refer to

Table 11.8). Highest in ation of 28.5 per cent was recorded for tur dal. An increase in the rate of

in ation was observed for rice, groundnut, mustard oil, milk, and salt (both in packets and loose)

(refer to Table 11.9).

CPI and Other Price Indicators

 e commodity composition of the CPIs signi cantly di er from the WPI and also across the

other group-speci c CPIs. Because of a di erent commodity composition and weights assigned

to various commodities ...