{"id":197672,"date":"2025-05-08T12:11:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T10:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-inflation-eases-for-fifth-straight-month-to-21-2-in-april\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T12:11:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T10:11:39","slug":"ghana-inflation-eases-for-fifth-straight-month-to-21-2-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-inflation-eases-for-fifth-straight-month-to-21-2-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Inflation Eases for Fifth Straight Month to 21.2% in April"},"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 inflation slowed to 21.2% in April 2025, its lowest level in eight months, as the strengthening of the cedi helped reduce the cost of imports<\/li>\n<li>The year-on-year inflation rate eased from 22.4% in March, marking the fifth consecutive month of disinflation<\/li>\n<li>The Ghanaian cedi has been one of the world&#8217;s best-performing currencies in 2025, strengthening against the dollar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Ghana&#8217;s inflation slowed to 21.2% in April 2025, its lowest level in eight months, as the strengthening of the cedi&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505080093.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 inflation slowed to 21.2% in April 2025, its lowest level in eight months, as the strengthening of the cedi helped reduce the cost of imports The year-on-year inflation rate eased from 22.4% in March, marking the fifth consecutive month of disinflation The Ghanaian cedi has been one of the world&#8217;s best-performing currencies in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":197673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,8142,12621,4508,4509,6265,7670,257,254,16096],"class_list":["post-197672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-april","tag-eases","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-inflation","tag-month","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-straight"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/197672","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=197672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}