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Harare - Zimbabwe, for years plagued by hyper inflation, has switched
narrowly into an absolute price fall on a monthly basis, official
data showed on Friday, following adoption of foreign currencies.
The central statistics office said that prices in November were
0.1% lower than in October when monthly prices had shown a
rise of 0.8%.
The total disinflationary change from October to November is
therefore 0.9 percentage points.
The office said that the main component of the fall was a
decline in the rate at which food prices had been rising.
"The month on month inflation rate in November was -0.1%
shedding 0.9 percentage points on the October rate of 0.8%,"
the CSO said.
"The month on month non-food inflation stood at 0.15%
shedding 1.118 percentage points on the October rate of 1.03%."
Finance minister Tendai Biti said that inflation for the whole
year would not be more than 4.0%.
Since January, inflation has slowed rapidly after the country
shelved use of the local currency and adopted various currencies
such as the dollar, South African rand, British pound and Botswana
pula.
The economy has been battered over the last decade, following
President Robert Mugabe's violence-plagued land reforms which
decimated farming, the backbone of the economy.
- Sapa