Ethiopia To Overtake Kenya As Eastern Africa’s Top Economy
The Addis Ababa light rail that officially began its services in November 2015. Photo Anadolu Agen Ethiopia’s economy is expected ...
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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 ...
Stonebwoy Is Brand Ambassador For Cocoa Cultivation
Ghana’s contemporary international music icon, Stonebwoy, has hinted that he is adding farming to his occupation. Stonebwoy was crowned the ...
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, ...
Bawumiah’s Bad Economics
By Cassiel Ato Forson In his typical fashion, Dr Mahamadu Bawumiah, Vice Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, has ...
Bad Economics For Political Gain
In his typical fashion, Dr Mahmud Bawumia, Vice Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, has presented a 2016 edition ...
GDP Growth Slumps To 2.5%
The country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the second quarter has plummeted to 2.5 percent from the 4.8 percent recorded ...
FPSO Shutdown Hurts Ghana’s Economic Growth
The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has reveled the shutdown of the Kwame Nkrumah FPSO in the second quarter of 2016 ...
Africa Needs ‘fair Chance’ To Trade Not Sympathy – Mahama Tells UN Assembly
What Africa needs is not development assistance from developed countries but “a fair chance” to trade with the rest of ...
Nigeria Downgraded By S&P, Advised By Africa’s Richest Man To Sell Assets
Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote told CNBC that a wave of asset selling by the government could be the best way ...
Bawumia’s Lecture: Only Four Out of Eight Claims True
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is disputing some facts presented by Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, vice presidential candidate of ...
Bawumia Needs To Be Commended Not Insulted
Running mate of the New Patriotic Party, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia sought to do a comparative trend analysis when he analysed ...
Politics, Gifts Or Bribes?
Since independence Ghana had chosen the democratic path and even though this has been rudely interrupted by the military on ...
‘When Bawumia Speaks, NDC Shivers’
Speeches by the vice-presidential nominee of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) always send “shivers within the NDC”, Sydney Casely-Hayford, a ...
Separating Partisan Politics From Public Policy
On 8th September, 2016, Dr. Bawumia, the NPP’s running mate in the upcoming 2016 presidential elections delivered a seminal speech ...
63% Debt To GDP Figure Erroneous – Bawumia
A former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has questioned government’s 63% debt to GDP figure ...
Minimum Wage, Per Capita Income Declining Under Mahama – Bawumia
Ghana’s minimum wage, in dollar terms, has declined from $2.12 in 2008 to $2.02 in 2016 under President John Mahama, ...
Mills Govt Better Than Mahama’s – Bawumia
The 2016 running mate of the opposition New Patriotic Party Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said Ghana’s economy performed much better ...
Terkper Rules Out Spending Spree Before Poll
Ghana’s finance minister hopes to tap international capital markets for the fourth time in as many years, but dismissed concerns ...
Ghana’s Eurobond Return Hinges On IMF Nod
There’s one thing standing between Ghana and a new Eurobond sale: the International Monetary Fund’s concern that the West African ...