81.8% of QT poll respondents said they had noticed a rise in the cost of living in Qatar in the past year.
Source: Qatar Statistics Authority (QSA)
Regulations stem price rise/ How full is your basket?
By Sindhu Nair
When we started working on the story of cost of living, we had heard some murmurs and tweets of assent, but as the month passed the verdict was loud and clear. The cost of living in Qatar has certainly gone up and there are statistics to prove it. But in a country that shows such high growth rates, isn’t it imperative that there is inflation? Who controls the costs and what are the factors that control the cost of living?
Qatar Today gets the pulse of the nation on this throbbing issue.