UK-based research firm Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) is backing government to achieve its economic growth target of 6.3 percent, as well as cut its deficit to 6.5 percent, as announced in the 2017 budget statement. The new government hopes to almost double last year’s growth figure of 3.9 percent, and also reduce from about 9 … Read more
The Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) has predicted victory for the flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in the December presidential election. The NPP, it predicted, would also win majority of seats in Parliament, attributing that possible outcome to Ghanaians’ frustration with the country’s poor economic performance under the President … Read more
A Deputy Finance Minister, Mrs Mona Quartey, has repeated the government’s commitment to ensure transparency in the spending of the country’s oil and gas revenue to propel the growth of the economy. It will also use the funds to fight poverty. She indicated that the government would do everything within its power to make the … Read more
Deputy Finance Minister, Mrs. Mona Quartey, has repeated the government’s unwavering commitment to ensure transparency in the spending of the oil and gas revenue to propel the growth of the economy and fight poverty. She indicated that it would do everything to make the extractive industry more beneficial to the people. She said this in … Read more