Pakistan: Pakistan Market Price Bulletin, August 2016

Highlights

• In July 2016, wheat and wheat flour prices negligibly increased by 1% from June 2016;
• Headline inflation, based on Consumer Price Index (CPI), negligibly increased by 1.3% from the previous month (June 2016), and by 4.1% from the same month last year (July 2015);
• Prices of most non‐cereal food commodities remained almost unchanged from June 2016;
• The Casual labour wage/Wheat flour Terms‐of‐Trade (ToT) average has been slightly improving since last quarter of 2015 due to stable wheat flour price.
  However, it negligibly deteriorated by 1% from June 2016; and
• In July 2016, total global wheat production for 2016 ‐ 2017 is projected at 743.4 million tons.