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The oil, gold and cocoa exporter is following a $918 million credit programme with the International Monetary Fund that aims to restore fiscal balance and narrow inflation to s8 percent plus or minus 2 percentage points in 2018.
The government had projected end-of-year inflation of 11.2 percent for 2017.
Non-food inflation remained flat at 13.6 percent in December while food inflation edged up to 8.0 percent from 7.9 percent in the previous month.