Rising services, rent, tomatoes push Ghana’s inflation to 5.2 per cent

”A disaggregation of the figures showed that food inflation rose to four per cent from three per cent in August, but below the 11 per cent a year ago, while non-food inflation eased to 6.

For households, he said they could plan with confidence as prices rose far more slowly than a year ago, with food inflation at four per cent, offering savings space, while watching service bills like rent, transport and school fees, which rose to 8.1 per cent in September after a one per cent decline in August, pushing the overall consumer price index higher to 271.