{"id":506335,"date":"2026-07-02T14:41:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T14:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/506335\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T14:41:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T14:41:29","slug":"ghana-inflation-rises-for-third-month-in-june-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/506335\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana inflation rises for third month in June 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Ghana&#8217;s consumer inflation rose for the third month in a row in June, to 5.3% year-on-year from 3.7% in May, the statistics service said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"MsoSubtitle\">Government statistician Alhassan Iddrisu said the increase was mostly driven by non-food prices for transport, housing, and education services.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"MsoSubtitle\">Inflation remains far below the 13.7% recorded for the same month last year, Iddrisu said. However, he added that price pressures had started to mount again.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"MsoSubtitle\">The gold-, oil- and cocoa-producing nation has been emerging from its most severe economic crisis in decades.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"MsoSubtitle\">&#8216;Deserves close attention&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s consumer inflation rose for the third month in a row in June, to 5.3% year-on-year from 3.7%&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-506335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}