The Executive Secretary of the Central American Monetary Council presented its 30th Regional Economic Update. In it, they calculate how much inflation was indirectly imported by the Central American countries.

For this, they elaborated indexes of the various components which explain price changes in the past years. By using them they evaluate the inertial behavior of indirectly imported inflation.

Source: Central American Executive Secretariat of the Monetary Council

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