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Cedi depreciation, rising inflation, others account for downward review of GDP growth to 2.6%

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Cedi depreciation, rising inflation, others account for downward review of GDP growth to 2.6%

Ghana’s GDP growth rate for 2022 has been revised downwards to 2.6% from the earlier forecast of 4.8%.

The revised GDP growth rate by Fitch Solutions is far lower than the projections by the International Monetary Fund (5.2%) and the World Bank (5.0%).

According to the research agency, its forecast is attributable to the country’s rising inflation rate, depreciation of the cedi, the Russian-Ukraine war, among other factors that it asserts will erode the purchasing of consumers and affect the profit margins of businesses in the country.

Giving an update on Sub Saharan Africa economies for the first half of this year, Country Risk Analyst at Fitch Solutions, Mike Kruninger, said it expects the Ghanaian economy to expand to 4.9% in 2023.

“Overall, we forecast the Ghanaian economy to post real growth of 2.6% in 2022 after which will accelerate to 4.9% in 2023. Whereas the slow growth rate, especially for 2022, is in a decade, we believe that the economy will face pretty significant challenges in the short term.”

“So the first challenge and one of the most significant ones is rapidly rising inflation which is shown on the right right-hand of the slide. The consumer price growth reached 26.6% in May [2022], which is the highest inflation rate in over 18 years. Really, it is biting into the purchasing power of the households and eroding corporate profit margins”, he explained.

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Mr. Kruninger also expressed worry about the declining consumer confidence.

“So if we look at the consumer confidence which is published by the Bank of Ghana, we see that sentiments is indeed really down. The April 2022 index is even lower than the value in April 2020 in the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. And as a result, we expect that consumer spending will be subdued over the coming months”.

“Another important challenge the Ghanaian economy is facing is weak fiscal condition. The county’s position has deteriorated pretty significantly over the past two years, mostly due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The government had to borrow from international capital markets. This is not the case now, but the debt has gone up to unsustainable levels”, Mr. Kruninger said.

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