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UNECE helps improve the measurement of inflation

04/30/2016

We are all more or less familiar with the concept of inflation – rising prices that reduce our purchasing power. The consumer price index (CPI) is the most commonly used measure of consumer price inflation. It measures the average price change of goods and services purchased by households for consumption. So to know whether that cup of coffee really was cheaper before, take a look at the CPI. The CPI has a direct effect on millions of households who…

Miracle Seeds Feeding the World – Celebrating the 2016 International Year of Pulses

04/30/2016

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Miracle seeds, power food or “poor man’s meat” as they are sometimes called – pulses (beans, lentils, chickpeas and more) are the super food that we have certainly all eaten – but which many of us have never heard of. Perhaps this is why the United Nations General Assembly named 2016 as the “International Year of Pulses” based upon an initiative launched by Pakistan and Turkey. To mark this International Year in Geneva, an extraordinary event in celebration of…