{"id":252716,"date":"2026-01-23T01:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T01:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/252716\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T01:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T01:16:13","slug":"ghanas-multidimensional-poverty-rate-declines-for-third-consecutive-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/252716\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s multidimensional poverty rate declines for third consecutive quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s Statistical Service on Wednesday announced that the country\u2019s multidimensional poverty rate has declined for a third consecutive quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The index measures deprivation across health, education, living conditions like access to clean water and sanitation, and employment.<\/p>\n<p>Data released shows it fell from 23.9% in the first quarter of 2025 to 21.9% in Q3 \u2013 confirming a steady improvement nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>This means that nearly one million of Ghana\u2019s 35 million citizens moved out of poverty within a year.<\/p>\n<p>Economic hardship is highest among households headed by people with no formal education while vulnerable groups continue to bear a disproportionate burden.<\/p>\n<p>The government statistician attributed the reduction to an improvement in overall living conditions but warned the underlying drivers of poverty remain largely unchanged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ghana\u2019s Statistical Service on Wednesday announced that the country\u2019s multidimensional poverty rate has declined for a third consecutive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-252716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}