INFLATION
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The latest Basic Food Index (BFI) released this week by the Commerce Department’s Statistical Division, shows the continued hike in the cost of basic food items in American Samoa in November, which registered an “increase of 3.4%” from October’s BFI.
According to the DOC...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa has not been immune from spiking rates of global inflation as new figures show the cost of consumer goods soaring by nearly 10 per cent in the year to October.
Samoa's Consumer Price Index (C.P.I.) rose by 9.7 per cent higher in the year to October 2021, a monthly report from...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Millions of dollars in COVID money in the hands of local residents boosted purchase power and was among the contributing factors in the increase in the American Samoa Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the second-quarter of calendar year 2021 — the period April to June,...