Unhappy with the tight fiscal space government is confronted with, economic Policy Think- Tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) is advising caution in expenditure to forestall escalation of the fiscal deficit. Even though government has managed to create some space through its review of earmarked funds, the Institute is worried the space created is … Read more
Unhappy with the tight fiscal space government is confronted with, economic Policy Think-Tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) is advising caution in expenditure to forestall escalation of the fiscal deficit. Even though government has managed to create some space through its review of earmarked funds, the Institute is worried the space created is no … Read more
The Institute for Fiscal Studies, a finance and economic think-tank based in Ghana, says the current practice, whereby expenditure on wages and salaries consumes an increasing share of revenue to the government, is not sustainable, especially given that the size of public sector employment relative to the labour force is declining. Therefore, the rate of … Read more
Ghana needs new, bold and systematic policies capable of bringing about fundamental changes to the economy, the Executive Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), Professor Newman Kwadwo Kusi, has stated. According to him, Ghana cannot produce different results based on the same past incremental policy changes. He said the country’s over-dependence on the … Read more