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Living Standard Series: Mothers may serve ‘banku’ for Christmas due to cost of rice, oil

Living Standard Series: First class graduate returns to selling ‘bofrot’ for survival

Living Standard Series: Review e-levy, high rate destroying our businesses – Momo agents

Living Standard Series: More virtual hangouts, less movement for private car owners due to high fuel prices

Living Standard Series: Why Isaac Addae used a placard to draw attention to his unemployed status

Living Standard Series: Some teachers surviving on loans due to meagre salaries

Living Standard Series: Mother spends about ¢1k weekly on baby food

Living Standard Series: Fufu lovers feeling the pinch as prices of ingredients soar

Living Standard Series: You need at least ¢5 for Waakye, ¢2 if Hausa ‘koko’ is your breakfast option

Living Standard Series: The least cost of bread is now ¢10

Living Standard Series: Families reduce items on grocery shopping lists to accommodate rising prices

‘Customers not ready for new charges’ – Construction workers bemoan low patronage of their services

Our daily budgets have been thrown out of the window – Drivers bemoan high food prices

‘Even getting money to buy fertiliser is a problem’ – Cocoa farmers decry economic hardship, low wages

Berekuso youth abandon farming for Okada business, petty trading to survive harsh economic conditions

High food prices compelling families to adjust daily meal plans

‘Cost of rent becoming a headache; people are going crazy’ – Tenants bemoan high charges

‘Kindness is fading; people aren’t giving enough alms due to economic hardship’ – Beggars lament

Living standard series: Commercial drivers in Kumasi buy fuel on credit to make ends meet

Economic hardship takes the jokes out of the drinking bars

‘I can’t afford the materials’ – Man puts building project on hold over soaring prices

Prices of food items shoot up in Agbogbloshie over increased transport fares, terrible roads

‘Utility bills are too high’ – Some Ghanaians exclude visits to salons, dress makers to save money

Living Standard Series: Hike in transport fares crippling Ghanaian businesses, affecting commuters

‘We spend a fortune to change car parts due to economic challenges’ – Commercial drivers

‘We are in difficult times’ – Second-hand cloth dealers lament continuous depreciation of cedi

‘My income can afford only one heavy meal a day’ – Mechanic assistant on rising food prices

‘I fast so I can spend ¢9 on good meal’ – Machine operator surviving on ¢800 income with family

JoyNews to premiere ‘The Living Standard Series’

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