{"id":300256,"date":"2025-12-05T10:25:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T10:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/300256\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T10:25:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T10:25:22","slug":"ato-forson-praises-sharp-decline-in-inflation-as-key-reforms-take-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/300256\/","title":{"rendered":"Ato Forson praises sharp decline in inflation as key reforms take hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/business\/Ato-Forson-praises-sharp-decline-in-inflation-as-key-reforms-take-hold-2012213?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/45147986.295.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Cassiel Ato Forson is the Minister of Finance\" title=\"Dr Cassiel Ato Forson is the Minister of Finance\" width=\"295\" height=\"189\" \/> <\/a>Dr Cassiel Ato Forson is the Minister of Finance<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">The Minister of Finance, Dr <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=2581\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=2581\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cassiel Ato Forson<\/a>, has reacted to the recent drop in inflation, describing it as real and measurable progress.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) on Tuesday, December 3, 2025, announced that the inflation rate for November 2025 had fallen from 8.0% to 6.3% \u2014 the lowest level since February 2021.<\/p>\n<p>In a post shared on his X page on December 4, 2025, Dr Forson expressed satisfaction with the figures, noting that the government\u2019s key reforms are yielding positive results.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am especially delighted by the sharp fall in food inflation, down from 9.5 percent in October to 6.6 percent in November. And it is not just food. Price pressures are easing across the board,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/business\/Inflation-for-November-drops-to-6-3-2012051\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Inflation for November drops to 6.3%<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He added that the gains extend beyond food inflation, citing recent data from the Ghana Statistical Service. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Local inflation has slowed from 8.0 percent to 6.8 percent, while imported inflation has fallen even faster, from 7.8 percent to 5.0 percent. This is real, measurable progress!&#8221; he emphasised.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the eleventh consecutive month of declining inflation.<\/p>\n<p>Read his post below:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Inflation has dropped to 6.3 percent in November 2025, the lowest since the 2021 rebasing and the eleventh consecutive month of decline.<\/p>\n<p>I am especially delighted by the sharp fall in food inflation, down from 9.5 percent in October to 6.6 percent in November. <\/p>\n<p>And it is not\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HXZzKBFFsD\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/HXZzKBFFsD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=2581\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=2581\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cassiel Ato Forson<\/a> (PhD) (@Cassielforson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cassielforson\/status\/1996483117998088376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 4, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>SP\/AE<\/p>\n<p>All you need to know about Ghana&#8217;s new vehicle number plates |BizTech:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Cassiel Ato Forson is the Minister of Finance The Minister of Finance, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-300256","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-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}