{"id":180891,"date":"2024-09-19T17:21:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T15:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghanas-economy-grows-at-fastest-pace-in-five-years-in-second-quarter\/"},"modified":"2024-09-19T17:21:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T15:21:41","slug":"ghanas-economy-grows-at-fastest-pace-in-five-years-in-second-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghanas-economy-grows-at-fastest-pace-in-five-years-in-second-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s Economy Grows At Fastest Pace in Five Years in Second Quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><em>TLDR<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ghana&#8217;s economy grew 6.9% in Q2 2024, surpassing expectations and seeing significant growth in industrial, agriculture, and services sectors.<\/li>\n<li>Strongest growth in the industrial sector at 9.3% year-on-year, with agriculture and services sectors growing at 5.4% and 5.8% respectively.<\/li>\n<li>Despite overall growth, Ghana&#8217;s cocoa subsector experienced a fourth consecutive quarter of contraction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Ghana&#8217;s economy expanded 6.9% in the second quarter of 2024, marking its fastest growth in five years and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409190415.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TLDR Ghana&#8217;s economy grew 6.9% in Q2 2024, surpassing expectations and seeing significant growth in industrial, agriculture, and services sectors. Strongest growth in the industrial sector at 9.3% year-on-year, with agriculture and services sectors growing at 5.4% and 5.8% respectively. Despite overall growth, Ghana&#8217;s cocoa subsector experienced a fourth consecutive quarter of contraction. Ghana&#8217;s economy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":180892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,5762,17500,4509,8226,9886,257,11745,8710,254,5114],"class_list":["post-180891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-economy","tag-fastest","tag-ghana-news","tag-grows","tag-news","tag-pace","tag-quarter","tag-south-africa-today","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}