Headline inflation eased to 1.7 percent in the second quarter this year as price increases in food and non-food items decelerated, the central bank said on Thursday.

This brought inflation for the first half to an average of 2 percent, or within the 2-percent to 4-percent target of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP).

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