Data from Ghana Statistical Services (GSS) show there has been a substantial drop in Producer Price Inflation (PPI) - from 78.1 percent in November 2022 to 52.2 percent in December 2022. This represents a 25.9 percentage point decrease in producer inflation relative to the rate recorded in the previous month....
Review anti-business taxes The 2023 budget and economic policy must prioritise economic stability and recovery, with local solutions at the centre, says the Ghana National Chamber of Commerce and Industry GNCCI and the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI). While calling for a review of what they described as not-too-business-friendly taxes...
With governments the world over being held more accountable by their citizens and investors for higher environmental, ethical and social standards, the 2023 budget statement and economic policy must include a clear and viable path on climate action, access to affordable and clean energy, and quality education. This is a...
Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) Dr. Ernest Addison has indicated that the monetary authority will not relent in its battle to beat down inflation and attain price stability, despite global and local pressures militating against its efforts. In a speech read on his behalf at the 39th Annual...
Consumer inflation further increased to 31.7 percent year-on-year (y-o-y) in July 2022, on the back of persistent price pressures from transport, data from the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) have shown. This represents a 1.9 percentage point rise from 29.8 percent recorded in the previous month. Persistently increasing food, petroleum and transport...
The country improved marginally on budget transparency – scoring 56 out of 100 – indicating public access to information on how the central government raises and spends public resources, the Open Budget Survey (OBS) has revealed. This is an increase from 54 recorded in 2019. The Open Budget Survey (OBS)...
Amid improved rainfall which has been better than the previous year, market watcher, Databank, anticipates that a better food harvest season could tame the rise in food inflation from the latter part of the third quarter to the fourth quarter. Although food inflation in June 2022 extended its gains by...
The Producer Price Inflation (PPI) rate has recorded a marginal decrease of 0.8 percentage points as the ex-factory prices of goods and services hit 12.8 percent in December 2021, recently-released provisional data from the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has shown. The figure represents year-on-year rate of change from December 2020...
The post COVID world has been observing massive heights in product price/inflation. However, it remains a grey area if the trajectory is long or short. Let’s first go through detrimental aspects of inflation in terms of the economic environment, global supply chain, policy regulations, demand factors, cost-push factors, rising...
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, indicates that government has officially written to parliament on modifications that has been made to the 2022 budget. According to the Minister, modifications have been made to four key issues out of the five raised by stakeholders including the Minority including Agyapa Royalties deal, tidal waves...