{"id":2635,"date":"2019-05-24T12:37:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T12:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:18","slug":"tough-times-ahead-as-inflation-on-steep-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/05\/24\/tough-times-ahead-as-inflation-on-steep-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough Times Ahead as Inflation On Steep Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By JULIUS SIGEI<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inflation might hit an all-time high of 11 per cent as a result of the prolonged drought earlier in the year, the Parliamentary Budget Office has warned, signalling tough times for Kenyans already reeling under high cost of living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month, inflation reached a\n19-month high of 6.58 per cent, eroding the purchasing power of consumers who\nnow need an additional Sh658 to buy a basket of goods that last year cost\nSh10,000\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/business\/Tough-times-ahead-as-inflation-on-steep-rise\/996-5129074-g5ltshz\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JULIUS SIGEI Inflation might hit an all-time high of 11 per cent as a result of the prolonged drought earlier in the year, the Parliamentary Budget Office has warned,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}