{"id":271214,"date":"2024-12-27T05:16:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T05:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/27\/ghana-to-return-to-single-digit-inflation-in-quarter-one-2026\/"},"modified":"2024-12-27T05:16:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T05:16:14","slug":"ghana-to-return-to-single-digit-inflation-in-quarter-one-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/27\/ghana-to-return-to-single-digit-inflation-in-quarter-one-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana to return to single digit inflation in quarter one 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"article-text\">\n                       \n                        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ghana will return to single digit inflation in the first quarter of 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to IC Research, it shifted forward its forecast to quarter one 2026, on the back of the sluggish disinflation and earlier forex pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe also flag the renewed external policy uncertainty as a risk to exchange rate, energy, and food prices with a pass-through to inflation in 2025. However, the recent strong appreciation of the Ghanaian cedi will tame the price pressures in December 2024 into early 2025, potentially capping the upside risk\u201d, it stressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bank of Ghana\u2019s (BoG\u2019s) inflation forecast showed a slightly elevated profile but remains a tad bullish on horizon for single digit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the IC Research June 2024 inflation update (Canary in the Coal Mine), it raised its 2024 inflation forecast to between 19.3% and 21.3% as the sluggish disinflation heightened the risk of overshoot on BoG\u2019s initial end-2024 target of 15.0% \u00b1 2.0%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the MPC was silent on the updated forecast for end-2024, the Committee revealed a slight elevation in the one-year ahead average inflation to 20.1% against 19.0% at the September MPC meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ghana&#8217;s annual consumer inflation climbed for the third month to\u00a023%\u00a0in November 2024, the sharpest since May 2024, accelerating from 22.1% in the prior month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Upward pressure came mostly from food prices (25.9% vs 22.8% in October), especially for staple items like beans and yams.<\/p>\n\n                <p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>      \n               \n <!-- Post Tags -->\n                \n\n                        \n\n    \n                                 \n                                             \n                    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana will return to single digit inflation in the first quarter of 2026. According to IC Research, it shifted forward its forecast to quarter one 2026, on the back of the sluggish disinflation and earlier forex pressure. \u201cWe also flag the renewed external policy uncertainty as a risk to exchange rate, energy, and food prices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ghana to return to single digit inflation in quarter one 2026 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/27\/ghana-to-return-to-single-digit-inflation-in-quarter-one-2026\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ghana to return to single digit inflation in quarter one 2026 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ghana will return to single digit inflation in the first quarter of 2026. 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