Tag: inflation

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) will begin its regular MPC meetings from today, Wednesday, July 21, 2021, through to Friday, July 23, 2021. This ...

The national year-on-year inflation rate has gone up marginally to 7.8% in June 2021, a 0.3 percentage point higher than the 7.5% recorded in May 2021.  The Ghana Statistical Service ...

Sudan’s growth forecast has been revised down from 0.8 percent to 0.6 percent in 2021, according to Fitch Solutions forecasts. Although exiting the recession this year, after contracting by an ...

The Central Bank of Zimbabwe is likely to keep its key policy rate on hold at 40 per cent over the remainder of 2021, Fitch Solutions forecasts. In June 2021, ...

Output growth continued to rise in the final month of the second quarter of 2021 together with new orders and employment in Ghana, albeit marked increase in prices presented some ...

Rand Merchant Bank (RMB), the Corporate and Investment Banking arm of First National Bank (FNB), projects Ghana’s economy to rebound strongly at 4.2% in 2021. According to RMB, a combination ...

The Producer Price Inflation (PPI) which measures the ex-factory prices of goods and services in the country was 11.8% in May 2021. This represents a 0.9 percentage point increase in ...

The recent increase in transport fares by 13% effective June 5, 2021 has given a new twist in the debate about inflation in the country, despite recent data showing a ...

The national year-on-year inflation rate was 7.5 percent in May 2021, reflecting a 1 percentage point decline from what was recorded in April 2021. This also contrasted with a peak ...

Professor Peter Quartey, an Economist and Director of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), has stated that the country should brace up for a rise in the ...