{"id":550943,"date":"2026-06-15T08:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T05:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=550943"},"modified":"2026-06-15T10:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T07:55:13","slug":"edb-explains-slowdown-in-inflation-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/edb-explains-slowdown-in-inflation-in-belarus","title":{"rendered":"EDB Explains Slowdown in Inflation in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Analysts at the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) have linked the slowdown in annual inflation in Belarus in May to a deceleration in food price growth.<\/p>\n<p>According to Belstat, annual inflation stood at 4.8% in May, down from 5.4% in April.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;The main factor was a slowdown in food price growth, to 4.9% year-on-year from 6.3% year-on-year a month earlier. This was largely due to a decline in fruit and vegetable prices, which fell by 7.8% year-on-year in May after increasing by 3.1% year-on-year in April,&#8221;<\/i> the EDB said in its weekly review of the economies of member states.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, growth rates for non-food goods and services remained close to April levels.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;In our assessment, the decline in fruit and vegetable prices is partly related to a high base effect: in May\u2013July 2025, prices in this category rose sharply by 13\u201315% year-on-year. We expect inflation to remain below the ceiling parameter of 7% by the end of 2026,&#8221;<\/i> the EDB added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts at the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) have linked the slowdown in annual inflation in Belarus in May to a deceleration in food price growth. According to Belstat, annual inflation stood at 4.8% in May, down from 5.4% in April. &#8220;The main factor was a slowdown in food price growth, to 4.9% year-on-year from 6.3% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"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\/06\/6a2fafe603fe2.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"EDB Explains Slowdown in Inflation in Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-business"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550943","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\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550943\/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=550943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}