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Inflation is the speed, not the price: Why Ghanaians still feel the cost of living

Ghana’s inflation rate has fallen sharply from the highs recorded during the 2022 economic crisis. But with inflation rising for a third consecutive month to 5.5 per cent in October 2026, and many household essentials still expensive, what does the headline figure really tell us? Understanding the difference between inflation, prices and purchasing power helps explain why an improving economic indicator does not always feel like an improving household budget.

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Africa article Inflation is the Speed, Not the Price: Why Ghanaians Still Feel the Cost of Living. Illustration of a Ghanaian market woman in colourful cloth and headwrap holding a basket of tomatoes, onions, pepper, cooking oil and fish in one arm and a GH¢200 note in the other, looking thoughtfully at her shopping. Market stalls with price tags behind her. Text on image reads: Inflation is the Speed, Not the Price. Why Ghanaians Still Feel the Cost of Living. By Bridget Mensah
MoneyOpinion

Part 2: The journalist is broke, the business is booming who profits from Ghana's media industry while the people producing the news struggle to survive?

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Illustration split in two. On the left, a tired young Ghanaian female journalist in a teal blazer sits at a worn desk holding an empty wallet and a notebook, with a cracked phone and unpaid bills in front of her. On the right, a glamorous media business stage with spotlights, balloons, a trophy, stacks of money and executives celebrating at a sponsored event. The image symbolises the gap between struggling journalists and a booming media business in Ghana.
Society & DigitalAnalysis

Ghana’s household registry holds nearly three million households. But can the data deliver social protection fairly?

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Ghanaian woman in blue and gold African print dress and headwrap holds a young child in the doorway of a modest home in Kumasi, Ashanti Region. Floating around them are semi-transparent digital overlays from the Ghana National Household Registry showing Household ID GH-HR-0028471, female head of household, 4 members, location, poverty score 4.2 out of 10 marked as high vulnerability, verification at 72 percent, income security low, access to social protection pending, and a QR code. Multiple glowing question marks float around the data, symbolizing questions about data accuracy, fairness and accountability in social protection targeting.
Society & Digital

Liverpool FC Foundation, Right To Play target 650,000 Ghanaian children with early education programme

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Reps Liverpool FC Foundation,
Society & Digital

Ghana faces hotter, drier months as GMet warns of El Niño risks to farming, water and power

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Editorial illustration of a Ghanaian woman farmer in northern Ghana holding drought-tolerant seeds in her hands, standing in a dry farm field with wilted maize crops. In the background, Lake Volta is shown with receding water levels and the Akosombo Dam faintly visible under a hot, hazy sun with baobab trees. Foreground details include a water harvesting container with a tap and a thermometer showing 38 degrees Celsius, symbolizing Ghana's hotter and drier season warning, risks to farming, water and power due to very strong El Niño as forecast by the Ghana Meteorological Agency.
MoneyAnalysis

Ghana wants to make its own HIV medicines. But will local production make treatment more accessible?

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A Ghanaian female pharmaceutical technician in a white lab coat and blue hair net inspects a bottle of antiretroviral medicine inside a modern pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Ghana. In the background, a Ghana flag hangs on the wall and medicine blister packs move along a production line. On the stainless steel table in front of her are boxes labeled HIV Test Kit, PrEP, and Condoms 12 Pack, with blister packs of tablets. The image represents Ghana's ambition to locally manufacture HIV medicines, diagnostics and prevention commodities to strengthen health security and access.
AfricaAnalysisCSW DeskThe Gender Lens

Unpaid care work in Africa: who pays for what women do for free?

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An African woman wearing a blue and yellow patterned wrap carries a sleeping toddler on her back while stirring a pot of food over an outdoor stove. Around her are baskets of vegetables, a basin of laundry, and firewood. A translucent clock graphic overlays the scene with text reading "196 days vs 46 days - Average annual unpaid care work, Women vs Men in Africa." In the background, a rural homestead transitions into a colorful cobblestone street with fishing boats, representing Kenya and Cabo Verde.
Money

Ghana’s market women demonstrate leadership but need greater access to finance, Vice President says

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Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang delivering a speech at the event
Money

Bank of Ghana researchers propose AI tool for near real-time inflation tracking

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Laptop showing inflation chart with Ghana cedi price tags and digital network overlay, Bank of Ghana building in background.
Society & Digital

Gender Minister explores support for disability centre seeking better training facilities and market access

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Gender minister with the PWDS
Money

Dansoman Market fire victims receive support to rebuild businesses

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Money

Gender Minister Calls for Stronger Canada–Africa Cooperation to Advance Women’s Economic Inclusion

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2nd Egumeni side event
MoneyGlobal Lens

Fathers get one-eighth of mothers’ paid parental leave. Ghana gives fathers no statutory paternity leave

7 min read

A dad carrying his child
Power

Ghana Pays GH¢24.8bn to Statutory Funds: What Does It Mean for Public Services?

6 min read

Dr. Cassiel Ato Hayford
Money

625 flood-affected people receive emergency cash support in Hohoe

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Volta Regional Minister handing over cash to one of the Hohoe flood victims
Money

Ghana highlights Women’s Development Bank at African Union dialogue on women’s economic inclusion

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Women leaders from across Africa at the EGUMENI DIALOGUE
Body & SafetyAnalysisData LensThe Gender Lens

Perimenopause in Ghana: What women need to know about symptoms, treatment and work

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Ghanaian market trader in her late 40s holding a woven hand fan at her produce stall in Accra.
MoneyAnalysisThe Gender Lens

When a university's reopening is delayed, who pays? The women behind KNUST's night market

6 min read

Night Market Legon
MoneyOpinionThe Gender Lens

The sea is taking more than homes from Ketu South’s women

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Blekusu shore
Money

LEAP payments monitored across Ghana’s 16 regions as Ministry checks delivery

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Beneficiaries of LEAP
MoneyThe Gender Lens

Ghana School Feeding Programme: Minister calls for accurate enrolment data to protect children’s meals

3 min read

Min of Gender
MoneyCSW DeskThe Gender Lens

Ghana’s Affirmative Action Act: Gender-responsive budgeting puts public spending under scrutiny

3 min read

GENDER RESPONSIVE BUDGETING
Body & SafetyAnalysisData LensThe Gender Lens

Breast cancer treatment carried an average economic cost of GH¢34,631 per patient in 2019. Who bears it?

4 min read

EDITORIAL ILLUSTRATION
PowerAnalysisData LensThe Gender Lens

Ghana put GH¢400 million into a women’s bank. So where are the loans?

9 min read

Young Ghanaian market trader in Accra looking down road toward distant bank building, representing wait for Women's Development Bank

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