Interest Rate Hits 33 Per Cent
The average lending rate of banks has hit 33 percent as at the end of August this year, the highest since 2003, the latest central bank’s macroeconomic and financial data has shown. This is a...
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Interest Rate Jumps To More Than A Decade High
The average lending rate of banks has hit 33 percent as at the end of August this year, the highest since 2003, the latest central bank’s macroeconomic and financial data has shown. This is a...
Election Fever Pushes Up Inflation Slightly
Barely three months to the crucial December polls, inflation, which has been largely erratic this year, has begun a gradual ascent, with the Ghana Statistical Service suspecting that traders are...
Energy Levies Are “a Bitter Pill”
The Energy Sector Levies are “a bitter pill” the country has to swallow to heel ailing utilities, and not because government takes delight in overloading consumers with taxes, Employment and...
Shippers Call For Strict Compliance
The leadership of key business associations in the country who represent a critical mass of the shipping community have called for “heavy” sanctions against any shipping line that goes against...
Industrialist Advocates 24-Hour Economy
The Chief Executive Officer of Reroy Cables, Kate Quartey-Papafio, has called on more businesses, especially those in the manufacturing sector, to operate a 24-hour cycle, to help improve...
Sanction Shipping Lines Who Flout ‘no Terminal Charges’ Order – AGI
“We urge Government to apply heavy sanctions against any Shipping Line that acts contrarily or attempts to impose such arbitrary charges on Shippers” that’s the latest call from leadership of...
Imanis Business & Economic Environment Report (2011-2016)
A suitable environment for businesses to succeed remains an important precursor to economic growth and ultimately the improvement of living standards. At a UN forum held in 2015, UN Secretary-General...
Spio Garbrah Stabs Cement Producers
Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, Minister of Trade & Industry, is said to be busily issuing cement licences to Chinese importers to import substandard cement even before a nine-member committee mandated by...
Who Are the Beneficiaries? – COPEC
The Executive Council of the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers Ghana (COPEC) has raised questions about which institutions are benefitting from the 17.5 per cent Value Added Tax (VAT) imposed on...
Complete Biography & Profile of Mrs. Gladys Asmah, Former Minister of Women Affairs
Mrs. Gladys Asmah, was born on October 16, 1939, at Cape Coast, in the Central Region. She started her primary education at Wesley Girls School and then to the Ghana, National College, both in Cape...
Complete Biography & Profile of Dr. (Mrs.) Ester Afua Ocloo, Nkulenu Fame (RIP)
Educational background 1936-1941:Achimota Secondary School (Cambridge School certificate) 1949-1951:Diploma courses in : large Scale course at the Good House-Keeping Institute of Cookery , London,...
Complete Biography & Profile of Hannah Tetteh, Foreign Affairs Minister
Hon Hanna Tetteh, a Legal Practitioner by profession, was born on 31st May, 1967 at Szged Hungary. Hon Hanna Tetteh is a member of the Ghana Bar Association. Education Hon Hanna Tetteh, who hails...