<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Bangladesh’s general inflation rate in November has dropped slightly to 8.85 percent (point to point). In last three months, the ratio of inflation dropped.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>In October, the inflation rate was 8.91 percent, while September saw an inflation rate of 9.1 percent.</div><div><br></div><div>Fuel price hike in August pushed the point-to-point inflation in a decade-highest 9.52 percent, which had dropped by 0.61 percent in the last two months.</div><div><br></div><div>Inflation in Bangladesh decreased mainly due to fuel prices normalizing in the global market, strengthening supply of subsidized essential food items through TCB, and a surplus of winter vegetables, said Planning Minister MA Mannan while talking to reporters at the Secretariat on Monday.</div><div><br></div><div>The consumer price index (CPI) data prepared by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) saw that non-food inflation and other inflation in November was 8.14 percent and 9.98 percent respectively, while it was 8.50 percent and 9.58 percent in October.</div><div><br></div><div>However, general inflation increased slightly in rural areas in November and it stood at 8.98 percent, while it was 8.92 percent in October.</div><div><br></div><div>The general inflation in urban areas has decreased point to point 8.70 percent, while it was 8.90 percent in October 2022. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>