{"id":56615,"date":"2014-10-15T12:06:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T12:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=56615"},"modified":"2014-10-15T12:14:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T12:14:25","slug":"september-inflation-hits-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/10\/september-inflation-hits-record-high\/","title":{"rendered":"September inflation hits record high"},"content":{"rendered":"
Inflation for the month of September hit a record rate of 16.5%, the highest since December 2009.<\/p>\n
The September inflation rate is up from the 15.9 percent recorded in August.<\/p>\n
The monthly inflation rate was -0.2percent.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”du09GNl2CQfXFie6JCmxrTXzdr8eGxja”]Food inflation hit a rate of 5.8% up from 5.1% recorded in August and this was driven by mineral water and soft drinks which recorded a rate of 25.4%.<\/p>\n
However the average prices of vegetables declined by about 6.6 compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n
Nonfood inflation recorded a rate of 24.1% increasing from 24% and this was driven by housing, water, electricity and gas which recorded a rate of 63.5%. Education however recorded the lowest inflation with a rate of 3.5.<\/p>\n
The Central Region recorded the highest inflation rate of 18.5%, while Upper West recorded the lowest inflation rate of 10.9%.<\/p>\n
The Greater Accra Region also recorded an inflation rate of 17.2%.<\/p>\n
Of the September inflation of 16.5%, imported inflation was 23.4% while local inflation was 13.9%.<\/p>\n
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By: Anim Kwaku Boadu\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Inflation for the month of September hit a record rate of 16.5%, the highest since December 2009. The September inflation rate is up from the 15.9 percent recorded in August. The monthly inflation rate was -0.2percent. [contextly_sidebar id=”du09GNl2CQfXFie6JCmxrTXzdr8eGxja”]Food inflation hit a rate of 5.8% up from 5.1% recorded in August and this was driven by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":56618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[43,38,21,4],"yoast_head":"\n