{"id":210398,"date":"2025-10-19T08:09:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T06:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghanas-economy-expands-4-5-percent-in-july-gss\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T08:09:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T06:09:54","slug":"ghanas-economy-expands-4-5-percent-in-july-gss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghanas-economy-expands-4-5-percent-in-july-gss\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s Economy Expands 4.5 Percent in July &#8211; GSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">Ghana&#8217;s economy provisionally grew by <em>4.5 per cent in July 2025<\/em>, driven largely by strong performance in the services sector, according to the <em>Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) Monthly Indicator of Economic Growth (MIEG)<\/em>. This growth is lower than the 8.3 per cent recorded in the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The report revealed that the <strong>services sector grew by 6.4 per cent<\/strong> in July 2025. The maiden MIEG, a volume index capturing monthly changes in economic activity, focuses on <strong>agriculture, industry, and&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510170254.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>Ghana&#8217;s economy provisionally grew by 4.5 per cent in July 2025, driven largely by strong performance in the services sector, according to the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) Monthly Indicator of Economic Growth (MIEG). This growth is lower than the 8.3 per cent recorded in the same period last year. The report revealed that the services [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":210399,"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":[258,256,5762,9758,4509,8226,28040,11170,257,6720,254],"class_list":["post-210398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-economy","tag-expands","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanas","tag-gss","tag-july","tag-news","tag-percent","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/210398","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=210398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}