Ghana's inflation down to 20.4 pct in August

ACCRA, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) on Wednesday announced a further drop in the country's inflation rate to 20.4 percent in August, 0.5 percentage points lower than the 20.9 percent recorded a month earlier.

"The slower rate of inflation in August was due to declining food and non-food inflation, coupled with the base-drift effect," said Samuel Annim, the government statistician at t