Articles by Kofi Asante
Ghana To Receive US$500m World Bank Guarantee For ENI Gas
The World Bank will provide up to $500 million to Ghana in the form of a partial risk guarantee for use if the country...
$200,000 Rice Foundation Seeds Destroyed At Port
Sixty tonnes of foundation seeds worth US$200,000 meant for rice cultivation can no longer be used as seeds because...
Oasis Capital Fund To Support SMEs With US$27m
The Oasis Africa Venture Capital Fund (OAF) has been recapitalised to US$27 million with the support of new funds from...
Banks Squeeze Credit To Private Sector
Availability and ease of access to credit remains a huge challenge for the private sector. Latest data from the Bank of...
NPP’s Claims of IMF Bailout False
The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) has refuted allegations by the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP)...
BoG To Increase Minimum Capital For Banks
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has set up a technical committee to advice it on new modalities to be used in increasing the...
No Political Motives In Fertiliser Distribution
Allegations of discrimination in the supply of farm inputs to cocoa farmers have been denied by the Ghana Cocoa Board...
No Ghanaian Company In Top 200 Companies In Africa – Fidelity Bank CEO Laments
The Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity Bank Edward Effah has lamented, Ghanaian businesses appear content to be local...
Ghana Ranks 72nd On World Economic Freedom Ranking
Ghana has placed 72nd in the 2016 economic freedom index. This was revealed in a presentation by James Roberts, a...
Change Vehicle Import Policy To Solve Toxic Fuel
Head of Public Affairs at the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA), Kofi Bediako Amponsah, has suggested that a change in...
Ghana’s Inflation Doubles In 4yrs
Efforts by Managers of Ghana’s economy to arrest inflation in the past four years have proved futile as prices of...
TOR Constrained In Production of Low Sulphur Content Fuel
Lack of infrastructure and funds are the constraints to Ghana’s quest to fast-track the processes to achieve low...
Only 3 Out of 36 Firms On Stock Exchange Post Growth
Only three out of 36 listed firms on Ghana’s Stock Exchange have since January 2016 registered growth in their share...
Name ‘incompetent’ Youngsters In Mahama’s Gov’t – Apaak Dares Adei
The presidency has dared the former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA),...
We’re Not Safe Yet With Power Crisis
Former Volta River Authority (VRA boss), Kweku Andoh Awotwi, has said the country is not ‘home and dry’ as far as...
Absence of Regulatory Framework Hampers Cashew Sector
A fundamental problem of the country’s cashew sector is the absence of a regulatory framework and body to manage,...
Ghana Losing Out On US$70 Billion Organic Agric Market
The global market for organic agricultural produce is growing in leaps and bounds, but the country is hardly taking...
BoG Governor Backs Gov’t Claim of Economic Turnaround
Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Abdul Nashiru Issahaku, has corroborated government’s claim that the economy is...
Ghana’s Vehicle Importation Policy Must Change – GSA
The Ghana Standards Authority (GSA), is suggesting a change in the country’s vehicle importation policy as a solution...
Brexit Pushes Rate On Cocobod Loan To 1.47%
The Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) will pay more for it's annual cocoa loan this year than it did for the US$1.8 billion...