Analysts tip inflation to fall in first half 2018

Workers at a local fertiliser factory. FILE photo | nmg

Kenya’s inflation is likely to fall further in the first half of 2018—if prices are compared with the abnormally high increase seen in a similar period this year—but forecasting price trends by policymakers will be complicated by unpredictable food prices.

Citi Africa economist David Cowan says in the lender’s latest weekly economic note that the steep drop in inflation in the last six months has surprised the market.

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