{"id":5712,"date":"2014-03-12T14:59:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T14:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=5712"},"modified":"2014-03-12T14:59:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T14:59:59","slug":"february-inflation-hits-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=5712","title":{"rendered":"February inflation hits 14%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/inflation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2523\" alt=\"inflation\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/inflation-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/inflation.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/inflation-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/inflation-70x70.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Inflation for the month of February hit a record 14 percent. This has been the highest in the past four years.<\/p>\n<p>February inflation recorded a 0.2 percentage points increase from last month where 13.8 percent was reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Monthly inflation was at 1.1 percent from 3.9 percent recorded in January.<\/p>\n<p>The Food and non alcoholic beverages group recorded an increased rate of 7.5 percent from 7.1 percent recorded in January.<\/p>\n<p>The group was dominated by Mineral water and soft drinks which recorded inflation rate of 17 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The non-food group recorded a year-on-year inflation of 19 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The group was dominated by Housing, water, electricity subgroup which recorded a staggering 38.9 percent and the Transportation which recorded inflation rate of 26.8percent. Communications remained the lowest at 5 percent.<\/p>\n<p>On the regional level, Ashanti Region recorded the highest inflation rate of 16.7percent. Greater Accra recorded 14.4percent inflation and Upper West with the lowest rate of 9.5percent.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Government Statistician at the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), Edward Afram Asuo speaking to <strong>Citi Business News<\/strong> recommended government works on keeping low fuel prices, a key component of inflation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we are able to do something about the fuel prices and utility prices, I think we will have a low inflation rate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><br \/>\nBy: Anim Kwaku Boadu\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inflation for the month of February hit a record 14 percent. This has been the highest in the past four years. February inflation recorded a 0.2 percentage points increase from last month where 13.8 percent was reported. The Monthly inflation was at 1.1 percent from 3.9 percent recorded in January. The Food and non alcoholic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2523,"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-5712","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\/5712","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}