While the varying degrees of increase are partly because supply-side constraints in Japan have not been as severe as in the United States and Europe — as shown by developments in the respective delivery delay indexes of the Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) — they are also attributable to Japanese firms’ cautious price-setting stance.
For Slovenia, the broadening of inflationary pressures is well illustrated by the fact that the share of items in the HICP basket with more than 5% price growth increased from around 20% in the autumn of last year to over 60% in April.