Inflation busts faith in governments

It is failing cooperatives, it is greedy supermarkets, it is ineffective government policies, it is imbalances in public and private sector pay. Whatever it is, the facts on the ground are that the cost of living is increasingly expensive. Consumers in Kuwait claim the price of basic foodstuffs has risen as much as 40 per cent in the past three months.

With the official inflation rate at 7.3 per cent in October, Kuwait Times says the price of staples (cooking oil, rice, eggs, fresh milk) has shot up and that low-income families are struggling to pay the bills.

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