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Shopping cart is 6 percent more expensive than last year, and these are the outliers

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– © MARC HERREMANS – MEDIA HOUSE – According to research by Test Aankoop, a shopping cart in the supermarket has become almost 6 percent more expensive compared to April last year. These increases are partly due to the “rising costs for raw materials, energy, transport and packaging”. The outliers at a glance. – Werner … Read more

A wave of state bankruptcies is looming, IMF and World Bank leaders warn. High interest rates are to blame

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The post-pandemic recovery has brought about a dramatic rise in prices around the world. The IMF now predicts that consumer prices will jump 8.7 percent this year in emerging and developing economies and 5.7 percent in advanced economies, the highest since 1984. The leaders of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) … Read more