{"id":510651,"date":"2026-01-19T08:12:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T05:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=510651"},"modified":"2026-01-19T11:48:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T08:48:38","slug":"edb-expects-inflation-in-belarus-to-remain-at-around-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/edb-expects-inflation-in-belarus-to-remain-at-around-7","title":{"rendered":"EDB Expects Inflation in Belarus to Remain at Around 7%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Eurasian Development Bank expects inflation in Belarus to remain at its current level in 2026. Last week, Belstat reported that annual inflation in 2025 stood at 6.8%.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cFood inflation slowed to 9% year on year after 9.9% year on year a month earlier. This was driven by a significant deceleration in price growth for seasonal vegetables and fruit \u2014 to 1.3% year on year from 12.7% year on year in November. Prices for non-food goods increased by 3% year on year (after 2.8% year on year in November). Inflation in the services sector accelerated to 8% year on year from 7.7% year on year a month earlier. Core inflation rose to 7.3% year on year after 7% year on year in November, interrupting a decline that had lasted four consecutive months,\u201d<\/i> the bank said in its weekly review of the economies of its member states.<\/p>\n<p>The bank\u2019s analysts believe that inflation in Belarus will remain close to the target level in 2026.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cAgainst the backdrop of strong consumer activity and an increase in the VAT rate in Russia, we expect inflation in 2026 to remain close to the updated target benchmark of 7%,\u201d<\/i> the EDB concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The inflation target set for the government and the National Bank this year is no more than 7%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eurasian Development Bank expects inflation in Belarus to remain at its current level in 2026. Last week, Belstat reported that annual inflation in 2025 stood at 6.8%. \u201cFood inflation slowed to 9% year on year after 9.9% year on year a month earlier. This was driven by a significant deceleration in price growth for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":496871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/696defeaec72c.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"EDB Expects Inflation in Belarus to Remain at Around 7%"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}