While there was indeed a slowdown in the country’s inflation rate in the last month of 2022, it is still the highest recorded since the 9.1% posted in November 2008. It is also the fastest in 14 years, financial data and media company Bloomberg reported on Jan. 5.
Bagama't nagkaroon nga ng paghina sa inflation rate ng bansa noong huling buwan ng 2022, ito pa rin ang pinakamataas na naitala mula noong 9.1% na nai-post noong Nobyembre 2008. Ito rin ang pinakamabilis sa loob ng 14 na taon, Iniulat ng financial data at media company na Bloomberg noong Enero 5.
Sinabi ni Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles na ang dahilan ng pagtaas ng inflation sa bansa ay ang peso-dollar exchange rate na bumagsak sa pinakamababang halaga, at “hindi dahil sa anumang lokal kadahilanan.” Ito ay nakaliligaw.
Sonny Africa, executive director of IBON Foundation, told VERA Files Fact Check in an email that while rising global prices of food and the depreciation of the peso, driven by interest rate hikes in the United States, are indeed immediate inflation factors, the government has “direct control over factors like the excise and value added taxes it puts on goods and services consumed or, like fuel, used to produce other goods and services.”
Habang minamasahe ang datos kaugnay ng inflation kamakailan, pinaghalo-halo ni Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar ang kanyang mga datos at sinisi ang media.
