Articles by Kofi Asante
Proceeds From Gold Hit US$2.43 Billion
Proceeds from the country’s gold production in the first half of the year rose to US$2.43 billion compared with...
Tilapia, Cashew Draw Vietnamese Investors
Vietnamese investors, currently on a one-week working visit to Ghana, are seeking to establish joint ventures with...
Gov’t Wants SOEs To Go For Corporate Ratings
The Ministry of Finance is courting state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to offer themselves up for corporate ratings to...
Mahama Upbeat About Ghana’s Progress
President John Mahama is upbeat about the country’s economy after Moody’s Investors Service, a UK-based rating...
IMF Approves Third Tranche of Bailout To Ghana
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund has approved the third tranche of $116.2 million under Ghana’s...
Benchmark Rate Inches Up
The yield on the Government of Ghana 182-day treasury rate edged up by 0.01 per cent to settle at 24.70 per cent at the...
Eastern Corridor Road Project Stalls On Shortage of Funds
Residence of Bimbilla have expressed worry about the current state of the road network hampering their activities. The...
Terkper Chases Ghanaians Abroad For ‘Diaspora Bond’
Government’s desire to borrow more funds continues to grow as the Ministry of Finance targets Ghanaians in the...
ECG To Cut Power Distribution Losses By 30%
The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has intensified moves to cut down on illegal connections and theft to improve...
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...
IMF Board Approves $116m For Ghana
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Funds (IMF) has approved the disbursement of some $116 million to...
Mahama Lauds French Companies In Ghana
President John Dramani Mahama has held discussions with French President Francois Hollande at the Elysée Palace in...
Focus On Agric For Real Development
Head of Economic Division at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), Dr. Charles Ackah, has...
ACEP Welcomes Gov’t’s Petroleum Contracts Renegotiation
The Africa Center for Energy Policy (ACEP) has welcomed government’s decision to renegotiate the Sankofa-Gye Nyame...
NPP Will Scrap Taxes On Fishing Equipment
The vice presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia has indicated the decision of...
Ghana’s Economic Growth Slows In Second Quarter As Oil Output Falls
Ghana's economic growth slowed to 2.5 percent in the second quarter compared with a year earlier, provisional official...
Minimum Capital Requirement For Banks To Hit GHC500m From 2017
The minimum capital requirement for commercial banks in the country could be increased to Gh¢500 million from next...
Favourable Creditworthiness Due To Prudent Economic Management
Finance Minister Seth Terkper says the favorable assessment of Ghana's creditworthiness by some rating agencies shows...
Shipping Lines Still Charging THC
Trade associations in the country are accusing some shipping lines in the country of allegedly charging terminal...
GRA, West Blue Commended At International Single Window Conference In Morocco
The Ghana Revenue Authority, Customs Division with its Technical Partner, West Blue Consulting have been commended at...