The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) has kept its key lending rate to commercial banks unchanged. It left the rate at 27.0% after meeting to review developments in the economy over the past two months.
Speaking at press conference, Governor of the Bank of Ghana Dr. Ernest Addison said challenges of inflation is under control, hence the need to hold the rate at 27.0%.
He announced that the bank’s latest inflation forecast shows a steady decline and return to the path of disinflation, with an extended time horizon of achieving the medium term target of 8±2 percent.
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He cautioned that inflation profile remains elevated, largely driven by food price movements, especially in the last quarter of the year.
Recounting some activities that posed a threat to prices, Dr. Addison said the climate-related factors including the dry spell in some parts of the food-growing regions of the country and the late onset of rains, negatively affected production, while supply chain weaknesses generally affected food prices.
“While the inflation outturn for the year 2024 5 deviated from target, it is expected that the disinflation process will resume, contingent on renewed efforts at fiscal consolidation, which is anticipated in the new administration’s economic policy agenda and the yet-to-be-presented 2025 budget statement”.
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