Elections Pose No Major Risks But IMF Thinks Otherwise
The December 7 elections do not pose any major risks to Ghana’s economic rebalancing or its ability to implement the ...
Tag: economics
Claims By Bawumia Fact-Checked, Only One Entirely True
The National Patriotic Party (NPP) launched its 2016 manifesto in Accra, this Sunday and a team of fact-checkers subjected five ...
Favourable Economic Outlook For Ghana Is Conditional
The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) director for Africa has indicated that the favourable economic growth for the country from next ...
Evidence of Mahama’s Success Is In People, Not Statistics
Deputy Finance Minister, Ato Forson says NPP Vice-Presidential candidate Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is too fixated on statistics that he failed ...
Nearly 385 Million Children Live In Extreme Poverty – UNICEF
Children are more than twice as likely as adults to live in extreme poverty, according to a new analysis from ...
GIPC Records 400% Increase In Initial Transfers For Q2 2016
The second quarter of 2016 has been a good time for foreign direct investments (FDI) in Ghana in comparison to ...
Amend New BoG Act
Barely two months after parliament passed the Bank of Ghana (BoG) Amendment Bill, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has punched ...
Economy Shrinks By $1.8billion
The size of the Ghanaian economy (including oil) shrunk from US$38.5 billion recorded in 2014 to US$36.7 billion in 2015, ...
The World’s Largest Experiment In Giving People Free Money Launches In October
A groundbreaking social experiment will begin in Kenya in roughly one month. The charity GiveDirectly will begin giving people in ...
Practice Foundations of Nkrumaism
The book’s title is “The Theory of Philosophical Consciencism: Practice Foundations of Nkrumahism.”(ISBN: 978-1-909112-66-7) IN PRAISE OF DR. KOFI KISSI ...
Rational Foundations of Nkrumaism
“His publication list for this decision process begins with two 1982 papers, includes a 1989, and ...
Focus On Agric For Real Development
Head of Economic Division at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), Dr. Charles Ackah, has observed that ...
Moody’s Changes Ghana’s Creditworthiness From Negative To Stable
Moody’s Investors Service (“Moody’s”) has affirmed the Government of Ghana’s issuer and senior unsecured rating at B3 and changed the ...
Ban On Imports Not Solution To Trade Imbalances
An advisor to the Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Mr. Franklin Belnye has kicked against the placement of ban ...
Employed, Unemployed Or Under-Employed?
Among the key issues in this year’s elections which has been brought to the front burner is the issue of ...
Nigeria Forex Crisis and Unfinished Naira-Yuan Swap Deal
Barely five months after a currency swap deal between Nigeria and China was enmeshed in controversy, the country’s import profile ...
NPP Wasteful With Foreign Loans – Fifi Kwettey
The opposition New Patriotic Party(NPP) borrowed 750 million dollars from the International Financial Market in 2007, and despite this huge ...
Ghana’s Inflation Doubles In 4yrs
Efforts by Managers of Ghana’s economy to arrest inflation in the past four years have proved futile as prices of ...
Economy Of Effort
Reminiscing the time where children were begged to pursue formal education as a result of their distaste to corporal punishment ...
Bank of Japan Re-Strategize To Recuperate Economy
The Bank of Japan said Wednesday that it's introducing a new long-term interest rate target of around zero. The bank ...