{"id":38701,"date":"2023-10-11T11:28:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T11:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=38701"},"modified":"2023-10-11T11:28:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T11:28:04","slug":"september-inflation-falls-to-38-1-from-40-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/10\/11\/september-inflation-falls-to-38-1-from-40-1\/","title":{"rendered":"September Inflation Falls To 38.1% From 40.1%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ghana\u2019s inflation rate fell to 38.1% in September 2023, from 40.1% in August, according to the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The GSS said the decline in inflation was due to a decrease in the prices of food and non-food items. Food inflation fell from 51.9% in August to 49.4% in September, while non-food inflation fell from 30.9% to 29.3%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Government Statistician, Prof. Samuel Kobina Annim, said the decline in inflation was a positive development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The decline in inflation is good news for consumers and businesses in Ghana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It means that the prices of goods and services are rising at a slower pace, which will help to improve purchasing power and boost economic activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s inflation rate fell to 38.1% in September 2023, from 40.1% in August, according to the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS). The GSS said the decline in inflation was due to a decrease in the prices of food and non-food items. Food inflation fell from 51.9% in August to 49.4% in September, while non-food inflation fell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":38702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[8051,9375,6496,192,13328,6032,2264,6400,6546,10390],"class_list":["post-38701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-consumers","tag-decline","tag-food","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-statistical-service","tag-goods","tag-government","tag-government-statistician","tag-inflation","tag-prices"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38703,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38701\/revisions\/38703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}