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15 December 2022

Ghana’s November Inflation: A Swing to Dizzying Heights

In brief

  • Headline inflation churned out an unsurprising but dizzying surge to 50.3% year-on-year in November 2022 from 40.4% in October 2022.

 

  • Inflation for food, energy and imported items remain the major drivers of domestic price pressures both on year-on-year and month-on-month bases.

 

  • The recent decline in the prices of domestic petroleum products amidst a strong recovery of the Ghanaian Cedi could anchor an inflation peak in December 2022 or January 2023 with a potential disinflation from 1Q2023.

 

  • Despite the expectation of a near-term peak, we maintain our upside view on the policy rate potentially terminating at 29.0%, implying a pre-emptive hike of up to 200bps in 1Q2023 to counter the potential inflation risk from the tax measures in the 2023 budget