HIGHER prices of key food items, particularly rice and transport costs, pushed inflation up in October, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Tuesday.
Consumer price growth accelerated to 2.3 percent last month from 1.9 percent in September, hitting the median estimate in a Manila Times poll of economists and also falling within the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas' (BSP) 2.0- to 2.8-percent forecast.
