Row rect Shape Decorative svg added to bottom MONEY SMART WEEK SOUTH AFRICA Become more educated about your finances | Inflation Absa | Corporate and Investment Banking > Insights and Events > Become more educated about your finances | Inflation Peter Worthington Senior Economist SHARE Inflation is the overall rise in the prices of all the goods and services that you buy as a consumer. The inflation rate is the annual percentage change in the weighted average price level, which we call the consumer price index, or CPI. Join Peter Worthington from Absa Corporate and Investment Banking as he simplifies this complicated concept. Inflation means an overall rise in the prices of all the goods and services that you buy as a consumer. The inflation rate is the annual percentage change in the weighted average price level, which we call the consumer price index, or CPI. Join Peter Worthington from Absa Corporate and Investment Banking as he simplifies this complicated concept. Peter Worthington Senior Economist https://cib.absa.africa/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/file_example_MP3_700KB.mp3 Related Articles RISK MANAGEMENT Digital finance for AI-driven economies: Africa’s role in the next phase of cross-border commerce Africa’s relevance to the evolution of global finance is significant. The continent’s experience, particularly in cross-border payments, provides a glimpse into what tomorrow’s increasingly digital, data-driven global financial system could look like. Read more RISK MANAGEMENT Why Mauritius remains central to Africa’s next growth corridor On 1 April 2021, India signed the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and Partnership Agreement, its first trade agreement with an African country. It was signed not with a mining economy or a manufacturing powerhouse, but with Mauritius, a jurisdiction whose value has less to do with the size of its own market than with what businesses can do from inside it. Read more RISK MANAGEMENT Global Treasury Transformation. Local Market Execution. As treasury enters the age of AI, finance leaders are rethinking everything from liquidity management and forecasting to payments, working capital and cross-border transactions. Read more
