{"id":606840,"date":"2019-04-10T21:34:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T21:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<!-- \/1002554\/MJO_Announcement_250X340 -->\n<!-- <div id='div-gpt-ad-1550929497923-0' style='float:right;z-index: 996;height:340px; width:250px;'>\n\n<\/div> -->\n<!-- 27th April (1month) - UHAS -->\n<div style=\"float:right;z-index: 996;height:340px; "},"modified":"2019-04-10T21:34:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T21:34:35","slug":"inflation-for-march-inches-up-to-9-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/10\/inflation-for-march-inches-up-to-9-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation for March inches up to 9.3%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<!-- \/1002554\/MJO_Announcement_250X340 --><br \/>\n<!-- \n\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1550929497923-0' style='float:right;z-index: 996;height:340px; width:250px;'>\n\n<\/div>\n\n --><br \/>\n<!-- 27th April (1month) - UHAS --><\/p>\n<div style=\"float:right;z-index: 996;height:340px; width:250px;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/03\/glauc-new.jpg\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"1830378809\" onload=\"pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality(this);\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"background-color:white\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"><span style=\"color:#222222\">Inflation for March 2019 has inched up to 9.3 per cent up by 0.1 percentage point from the 9.2 per cent recorded in February 2019.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"background-color:white\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"><span style=\"color:#222222\">This rate of inflation for March 2019 is the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) over the twelve-month period, from February 2018 to March 2019.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid-1 --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"background-color:white\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"><span style=\"color:#222222\">According to the Ghana Statistical Service, the performance of the Ghana cedis to major trading currencies and the over-reliance on imported foods contributed to the increase.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"background-color:white\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"><span style=\"color:#222222\">Apart from imported food items, transportation, recreation, household furniture and clothing recorded higher rates of 9.7 per cent.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid-2 --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"background-color:white\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"><span style=\"color:#222222\">Recreation and culture recorded the highest inflation rate of 14.1 per cent, followed by Transport with 13.7 per cent, Clothing and footwear (13.3%), and Furnishings, household equipment and routine maintenance with 12.2 per cent.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"background-color:white\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"><span style=\"color:#222222\">Inflation was lowest in the Housing, Water, Electricity, Gas and Others Fuels subgroup (2.1%).\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><b><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"background-color:white\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"><span style=\"color:#222222\">Food and non-alcoholic beverages<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"background-color:white\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"><span style=\"color:#222222\">The Food and non-alcoholic beverages group recorded a year-on-year inflation rate of 8.4 per cent. This is a 0.3 percentage point higher than the rate recorded in February 2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"background-color:white\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"><span style=\"color:#222222\">Four subgroups of the food and non-alcoholic beverages group recorded inflation rates higher than the group\u2019s average rate of 8.4 per cent.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"background-color:white\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"><span style=\"color:#222222\"><b>Regional breakdown<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"background-color:white\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"><span style=\"color:#222222\">At the regional level, the year-on-year inflation rate ranged from 7.9 per cent in the Upper East region to 11.5 per cent in the Upper West region.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"background-color:white\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"><span style=\"color:#222222\">Four regions &#8211; Upper West, Brong Ahafo, Western and Ashanti recorded inflation rates above the national average and Volta region recorded the same inflation rate as the national average of 9.3 per cent.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async>(function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(d.getElementById(id))return;js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.10&appId=1559506714349564\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}(document,'script','facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inflation for March 2019 has inched up to 9.3 per cent up by 0.1 percentage point from the 9.2 per cent recorded in February 2019. 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