Lower global oil prices likely dragged the inflation rate to 2.3 percent in March, according to analysts polled by The Manila Times.

Their average forecast was lower than the 2.6 percent posted in February, when consumer price growth hit a two-month low, as well as from the 3.3 percent a year ago.

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