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Iran inflation will be below 21% till year end: official
TEHRAN- Iran's inflation rate will not exceed 21 percent during the remainder of this calendar year (March 19), an official with the Central Bank of Iran said yesterday.Abolfazl Akrami told Fars news agency that the inflation rate is currently declining.
The Subsidy Reform Plan has reduced Iran's unemployment rate and helped maintain its economic growth this year despite speculation by some analysts of a surge in inflation, finance and economic affairs minister said on February 17.
Iran's economic growth rate stood at 5.5 percent in the previous calendar year, the deputy economy minister said in December, 2011.
The plan, launched in December 2010, allows the Iranian government to gradually slash subsidies on fuel, electricity, and certain goods over the course of five years, with low-income families being compensated with direct handouts.
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