Kathmandu, Nov. 30 -- Inflation is showing no signs of letting up, and Nepal Rastra Bank says it's only going to get worse.

The central bank stated in its first quarter review of the monetary policy that higher prices may continue into the months ahead.

"Inflation may reach the highest single digit and last for around six months," Prakash Kumar Shrestha, chief of the economic research department at the central bank, told the Post.

The cost of food, fuel and transportation has been on a rising trend since February when Russia lunged into Ukraine. The war drove up energy prices steeply. And expensive oil resulted in higher input costs, mainly because of high-priced transportation.

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