As per the International Monetary Fund, PPI or the Producer Price Index measures the rate at which the prices of producer goods and services are changing over time. It is a key statistic for economic and business decision making and inflation monitoring.

A wholesale Price Index (WPI), on the other hand, measures and tracks the changes in the price of goods before they reach consumers 

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