ABSTRACT

Unlike India, there was no break in the price rise in Peru, inflation being continuous from 1939 to 1958 (Table 4:1).

TABLE 4:1 Peru: Percentage Changes in the Cost-of-Living Index and the Clothing Price Index, 1939/40-1957/581

Sources: R.P. Boletin de Estadistica Peruana, Year 1, No. 1, 1958, and Year 3, No. 4, 1960.