- Services drove nearly 70% of August’s growth.
- Agricultural growth slowed sharply to 2.6%.
ACCRA, GHANA – Ghana’s economic activity expanded 6.8% in August as booming digital services and recovering manufacturing outweighed a sharp slowdown in agriculture, exposing an increasingly uneven recovery.
The expansion, up from 5.3% a year earlier, signals improving economic momentum ahead of the government’s 2027 budget, but raises questions about whether growth is reaching farmers, rural households and businesses outside the services sector.
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