‘Bullet Injection’ Needed For Efficiency, Not Piecemeal Energy Levies
The Deputy Minister for Information Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah has stated that a piecemeal approach towards settling Ghana’s energy legacy debt is ...
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Government Has Laid A Solid Foundation – IEA
Dr. Eric Osei Assibey, an Adjunct Fellow of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), on Tuesday said the Government had ...
IMF Backs Ghana’s Domestic Borrowing Drive To Check Ballooning Debts
Government’s decision to turn to the domestic market for loans to finance key projects has received the support of the ...
IMF Points To Domestic Borrowing As Answer To Growing Debt
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has thrown its weight behind the government’s decision to rely primarily on domestic borrowing to ...
‘Government Has Laid A Solid Foundation’
Dr. Eric Osei Assibey, an Adjunct Fellow of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) on Tuesday said the Government had ...
Macroeconomic Performance To Influence Policy Rate
Despite high expectation on the part of the private sector for the Bank of Ghana(BoG) to reduce the policy rate ...
Macroeconomic Performance To Influence Policy Rate- Prof. Quartey
Despite high expectation on the part of the private sector for the Bank of Ghana(BoG) to reduce the policy rate ...
Free SHS Will Be Poorly Funded and Fail
Government's ambitious program to fund the free SHS policy in September 2017 will impose an unnecessary burden on government's finances, ...
2017 Budget Not A Panacea To Reduce Policy Rate
Despite government’s intention to pursue a pro business economic agenda in its fiscal policies, some financial observers are skeptical the ...
2017 Budget Not A Panacea To Reduce Policy Rate- Economist
Despite government’s intention to pursue a pro business economic agenda in its fiscal policies, some financial observers are skeptical the ...
Stimulus Package In 2017 Budget Juicy
The head of the Economics Department of the University of Ghana has described as juicy the stimulus package announced by ...
Gov’t Must Review Payment of Statutory Funds – Economist
A lecturer at the Economics Department of the University of Ghana, Dr. Adu Sarkodie, has suggested that the 2017 budget ...
Change of Gov’t In Ghana Won’t Affect Bailout Deal – IMF
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has watered down arguments that conditionalities under its Extended Credit Facility (ECF) agreement with Ghana ...
Economists Back Economic Capital For Banks
Some economists have backed the Bank of Ghana’s proposal to introduce economic capital requirement for banks as part of strategies ...
Amissah-Arthur Doubts NPP’s Ability To Manage Economy
The Vice President, Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur doubts the ability of a New Patriotic Party (NPP) government to correct the ...
IMF Approves Ghana’s Third Review
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) board has approved Ghana’s third review under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF). The nod was ...
Ghana Risks Entering Into Recession
Ghana’s economy faces a recession if steps are not taken to diversify its productive sectors, the Head of the Economics ...
UG Lecturer Agrees With Bawumia
A senior lecturer at Economics Department of the University of Ghana, Dr Eric Osei-Assibey, has supported claims by Vice Presidential ...