GIPC Lures Investors With Easy Access To Land
The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) has established a database to register lands so that investors will be able to ...
Tag: economics
UK Trade Deficit Widens In September
The UK trade deficit widened to £5.2bn in September from £3.8bn in August, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. ...
I Felt Like Absconding When I Took Over From Jonathan —Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari said, yesterday, that he almost left the country when he discovered that the nation’s treasury was empty ...
More Policy Attention Needed On Artisanal Mining – UNCTAD
Artisanal and small-scale mining offers opportunities to generate jobs, reduce poverty, and provide livelihoods, but this sector has been largely ...
The Productivity Conundrum
It's a political season, so we're hearing a lot of the usual crap about the economy. Should we raise taxes ...
Use Acquired Skills To Make Positive Change In Society
The Spiritan University College in Ejisu, has held its seventh graduation ceremony with a call to the graduating students to ...
Linking Constraints and Assumptions To Growth
The theoretical basis for any effective employment program rest on the idea of a perfect integration between an economy’s competitive ...
Governing By Fiction, Comedy and Self-Congratulation
In any civilized polity such as ours, politicians typically pledge to deliver certain ‘goods’ if they are voted into office ...
Kenya’s Economy To Remain Strong As Continent Shrinks To 20-Year Low
Kenya will shrug off the slump in growth on the continent to be among the best performing economies in Sub ...
Issuing Local Dollar Bond Must Be Measured- Economist Warns
As the contention between some bankers and the Finance Minister continue over the issuance of local dollar denominated bond, Economist, ...
Fiscal Strategy, the Informal Sector & the Jobs Agenda
Policy arguments about what drives economic growth have traditionally focused on capital, infrastructure and innovation, inter alia. There is no ...
Taxes, the Informal Sector & the Jobs Agenda
Policy arguments about what drives economic growth have traditionally focused on capital, infrastructure and innovation, inter alia. There is no ...
The Left’s Fed Up Makes A Naked Power Grab For Control Of The Fed
The left is undertaking an amazing back door plan to dramatically increase its influence over the Fed’s interest-rate-setting Open Market ...
Local USD-Bond Could Foster Dollarisation
Whereas government has given indication it will do more of the domestic dollar-bonds, on the back of the maiden one’s ...
Government Must Declare Unplanned Expenditure In 2017 Budget
As the Finance Minister prepares to present a first quarter 2017 budget to parliament on Thursday, Economist Dr. Ebo Turkson ...
Local USD-Bond Could Foster Dollarization – Analysts Warn
Whereas the government has given the indication it will do more of the domestic dollar-bonds, on the back of the ...
Oil Must Not Drown Agric Sector
Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Certified Economists of Ghana (ICEG), Daniel Amateye Anim-Prempeh, has joined the call for ...
Pan African Analytical Foundations
Not too long ago, we profiled two major scientific publications on Nkrumahism by the eminent economist, mathematician, philosopher, historian, logician, ...
Stubborn Inflation Perforates BoG’s Defenses
Attempts by the central bank to hem in inflation continue to yield less than satisfactory results, as a 0.3percent rise ...
Two Claims of Nana Addo Fact-Checked – 1 Entirely True, Another Half-True
Nana Akufo-Addo’s claim about Ghana’s GDP growth rate was found to be half true while his claim about the unemployment ...