Inflation is still on the rise in the country. The rate increased to 17 percent in November - the highest since March 2010.
It however represents a 0.1 percent increase from the 16.9 percent rate recorded in October, the Ghana Statistical Service announced this today.
The non-food group recorded a marginal increase in inflation rate from 24% to 24.1% in November. The increment was mainly driven by housing, water and electricity which recorded an inflation rate of 36.2%.
Education recorded the lowest inflation rate of 9%.
Food inflation inched up marginally from 6.5% to 6.6% which was driven by coffee, tea and cocoa which recorded an inflation rate of 20.5%.
In Greater Accra, inflation hit 16.3% as against 19.5% in the Central region with the Upper West region recording the lowest at 13.1%.
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