Gabriel felbermayr, President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy

Vienna, May 30 The Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) has raised the country's inflation forecast for this year from 5.8 perc ent to 6.5 per cent due to the continued energy crunch.Gabriel Felbermayr, director of the WIFO, told local broadcaster ORF on Sunday that Austria's domestic economy "is not prepared for such high inflation rates", reports Xinhua news agencyAccording to data published by Statistics Austria earlier this month, the country's year-on-year inflation rate reached 7.2 per cent in April, the highest figure recorded since October 1981.The rising inflation was mainly driven by surging fuel and energy product prices and food prices.Felbermayr suggested increasing social benefits, such as minimum income and family allowance, to cope with the rising inflation, ORF reported.Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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Politics :Austria's 2022 inflation forecast raised to 6.5%

Vienna, May 30 The Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) has raised the country's inflation forecast for this ... ...