Earlier this year, in response to a high-level UN meeting on NCDs in 2011, the World Health Assembly set a global target to reduce premature NCD mortality by 25% by the year 2025.

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In the 6 percent inflation case, although tradable goods prices, like soybeans and corn, are projected to rise to the 4.5 percent inflation target set by the Central Bank, non-tradable prices like services will go as high as 9 percent and pull the IPCA higher as a result.

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