{"id":190476,"date":"2025-02-04T04:41:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T02:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghanas-inflation-falls-first-time-in-five-months-to-23-5-percent\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T04:41:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T02:41:52","slug":"ghanas-inflation-falls-first-time-in-five-months-to-23-5-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghanas-inflation-falls-first-time-in-five-months-to-23-5-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s Inflation Falls First Time in Five Months to 23.5 Percent"},"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 annual inflation rate eased slightly to 23.5% in January<\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s down from 23.8% in December, marking the first decline in five months<\/li>\n<li>The easing inflation comes as Ghana transitions to a new central bank governor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Ghana&#8217;s annual inflation rate eased slightly to 23.5% in January, down from 23.8% in December, marking the first decline in five months, according to Government Statistician Samuel Kobina Annim. The drop was driven by a slowdown in non-food inflation, though food prices&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502030512.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 annual inflation rate eased slightly to 23.5% in January That&#8217;s down from 23.8% in December, marking the first decline in five months The easing inflation comes as Ghana transitions to a new central bank governor Ghana&#8217;s annual inflation rate eased slightly to 23.5% in January, down from 23.8% in December, marking the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":190477,"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":[258,256,7668,4509,8226,6265,7061,257,6720,254,6599],"class_list":["post-190476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-falls","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanas","tag-inflation","tag-months","tag-news","tag-percent","tag-south-africa-today","tag-time"],"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\/190476","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=190476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}