{"id":155642,"date":"2015-09-29T12:58:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T12:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=155642"},"modified":"2015-09-29T10:43:19","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T10:43:19","slug":"ghana-trade-deficit-hits-506-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=155642","title":{"rendered":"Ghana trade deficit hits $506 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana recorded a trade deficit of 506.4 million dollars for the first 8 months of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;r02MkJSxEC83MqNFYjC1gk16obfYYIMn&#8221;]This is according to the Bank of Ghana Summary of Economic and Financial Data for September 2015.<\/p>\n<p>According to the figures Ghana was still a net importer of oil with imports exceeding exports by 40.6 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Total exports at the end of August was in excess of 735 million dollars while Total imports, was above 1 billion dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The Exports included Gold, Cocoa and Oil while imports involved oil and non-oil.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana&#8217;s Total exports included 249.5 million dollars from Gold , 67.2 million dollars from Cocoa and 136.2 million dollars from oil.<\/p>\n<p>While Oil imports stood at 176.8 million dollars as compared to non oil imports of above 1billion dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana&#8217;s Gross Foreign Assets as at August was above 4billion dollars representing 2.9 months of import cover.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By:\u00a0 Rabiu Alhassan\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana recorded a trade deficit of 506.4 million dollars for the first 8 months of 2015. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;r02MkJSxEC83MqNFYjC1gk16obfYYIMn&#8221;]This is according to the Bank of Ghana Summary of Economic and Financial Data for September 2015. According to the figures Ghana was still a net importer of oil with imports exceeding exports by 40.6 million dollars. Total [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":48907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,4],"class_list":["post-155642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-psychiatric","tag-st-augustines-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}