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Scope and purpose

of the policy paper

The present policy paper aims to achieve the following 4 objectives:
1. To provide the trends in the movement of Consumer Food Price Indexes, CFPI (2015 = 100) in various Southeast
Asian countries and the Southeast Asian region as a whole.
2. To provide the trends in the movement of year-on-year inflation rate based on Consumer Food Price Indexes (2015
= 100) of various Southeast Asian countries and the Southeast Asian region as a whole.
3. To provide the trends in the movement of Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) and General Consumer Price Index
(CPI) over time (Base 2015=100) for Brunei.
4. To provide the trends in the movement of year-on year inflation rates in CFPI and the General CPI over time (Base
2015=100) for Brunei.
5. To provide the trends in the movement of CFPI (2015-=100) of Brunei and the FAO Food Price Index (2014-2016=100)
over time.

For meeting the above-mentioned objectives, the author has used the latest available data from FAO. For reasons of
comparability across the countries (like same base year) and quality standards, FAO data have been used instead of data
provided by government agencies in various Southeast Asian countries.

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