Ghana's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) provisional growth in the third quarter of 2016 rose by 4 percent year-on-year. The GDP which includes oil for the 3rd quarter of 2016, grew by 4 percent compared...
The 2016 presidential campaign confirms what Marx wrote : “all the events and personalities of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice… the first time as tragedy, the second as...
President-elect, Nana Akufo-Addo, has stated his administration will shift the focus of the country’s economic management from taxation to production in order to deliver progress to Ghanaians....
This is a man who has run for the presidency for a whooping 8 years. I'm talking about a 72 year old man who is expected to be on retirement and not vying for a position as tedious and demanding as a...
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a UK-based leading provider of country, industry and management analysis, has forecast a 7 percent growth for Ghana’s economy next year. In its latest review...
In my previous column I observed here how the 2016 race reflects American conditions in the late 1970s — also stagnant — and how the political elites are echoing President Jimmy Carter’s...
Marx wrote : “all the events and personalities of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice… the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.” Karl, not Groucho, Marx. We...
Ghana should also look at how investments in roads, power and telecoms – in partnership with the private sector – might drive growth by lifting productivity; it could also be a way to create...
Those of you who visited Ivory Coast in pre-independence era can testify how wicked our colonial masters were. British didn’t develop our cities nor build roads. The railway lines they built were...
President John Mahama says claims that his government has underperformed in key sectors of the economy are mere propaganda. He said he has achieved more within the past three and a half years than...
Dzifa Amegashie, Head of Investor Relations at CAL Bank, has indicated that a lot of economic trends and indices, which are quite high, have negatively affected businesses in the country. Speaking at...
For some, the state of the economy matters most when it comes to presidential elections, perhaps more important than tribe and ethnicity. Electoral wins could be down to luck. Research has found that...
Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Dr Abdul-Nashiru Issahaku has acknowledged the slow growth of the Ghanaian economy, attributing it to external factors and tight credit conditions. According to...
Agriculture, one of the largest and most significant industries in the world, is important not only for a country's balance of trade, but the security and health of its population. Almost every...
Joy Business on Thursday put the spotlight on how Ghana’s indigenous manufacturing firms; from the shoemakers to gin makers, who are creating jobs and boosting economic growth. There is now a...
The opposition New Patriotic Party(NPP) has bemoaned the poor growth rate of the Agriculture sector describing it as sluggish. At a Press conference today to congratulate farmers and Fisherfolk on...
It's a political season, so we're hearing a lot of the usual crap about the economy. Should we raise taxes or lower them? Negotiate trade agreements or abandon them? These are important questions,...
The theoretical basis for any effective employment program rest on the idea of a perfect integration between an economy’s competitive drivers, the skill requirement to sustain those drivers and how...
Policy arguments about what drives economic growth have traditionally focused on capital, infrastructure and innovation, inter alia. There is no question the crucial role that such fundamentals play...
Policy arguments about what drives economic growth have traditionally focused on capital, infrastructure and innovation, inter alia. There is no question the crucial role that such fundamentals play...
