Though there exist laws on small scale mining, according to the 2008 Ghana Chamber of Mines report, illegal mining activities (galamsey) have been increasing with an estimated number between 300,000 and 500,000 artisan miners comprising one of the largest groups of illegal miners on the continent. People now do not even operate on a ‘hit … Read more
The timing of the resignation of the Bank of Ghana Governor, Dr Abdul-Nashiru Issahaku, is right, Gideon Amissah, a financial analyst, has said. According to him, the new government and the new Finance Minister will need a governor of the central bank that shares in the vision and ideology of the government, hence given that … Read more
An economist and CEO of the Institute of Chartered Economists, Ghana (ICEG), Gideon Amissah, says there is a likelihood of a ballooning fiscal deficit given the proposed tax cuts in the 2017 budget. The Finance Minister in the 2017 budget presented to Parliament outlined a raft of tax cuts including the one per cent special … Read more