The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) has established a database to register lands so that investors will be able to have easy access to land and increase Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)...
The UK trade deficit widened to £5.2bn in September from £3.8bn in August, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. Exports decreased by £0.2bn, while imports increased by £1.2bn. The...
President Muhammadu Buhari said, yesterday, that he almost left the country when he discovered that the nation’s treasury was empty as he assumed office. The President, who spoke during a...
Artisanal and small-scale mining offers opportunities to generate jobs, reduce poverty, and provide livelihoods, but this sector has been largely ignored by policy-makers and donors, an UNCTAD...
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 Spiritan University College in Ejisu, has held its seventh graduation ceremony with a call to the graduating students to use their acquired skills and knowledge to make positive change in the...
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...
In any civilized polity such as ours, politicians typically pledge to deliver certain ‘goods’ if they are voted into office and when the electorates believe in a candidate’s vision and trust...
Kenya will shrug off the slump in growth on the continent to be among the best performing economies in Sub Saharan Africa. The continent is set to slow to its lowest level in more than 20 years. The...
As the contention between some bankers and the Finance Minister continue over the issuance of local dollar denominated bond, Economist, Dr. Eric Osei-Assibey has warned that issuing such bonds must...
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...
The left is undertaking an amazing back door plan to dramatically increase its influence over the Fed’s interest-rate-setting Open Market Committee. The key activist group, a division of the Center...
Whereas government has given indication it will do more of the domestic dollar-bonds, on the back of the maiden one’s success, some analysts fear it could weaken the cedi and deepen dollarisation...
As the Finance Minister prepares to present a first quarter 2017 budget to parliament on Thursday, Economist Dr. Ebo Turkson has urged the government to clearly demonstrate how it intends to finance...
Whereas the government has given the indication it will do more of the domestic dollar-bonds, on the back of the maiden one’s success, some analysts fear it could weaken the cedi and deepen...
Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Certified Economists of Ghana (ICEG), Daniel Amateye Anim-Prempeh, has joined the call for government to pay attention to the agriculture sector, saying...
Not too long ago, we profiled two major scientific publications on Nkrumahism by the eminent economist, mathematician, philosopher, historian, logician, management scientist, financial and policy...
Attempts by the central bank to hem in inflation continue to yield less than satisfactory results, as a 0.3percent rise in September appears to confirm the Statistical Service’s suspicion that...
Nana Akufo-Addo’s claim about Ghana’s GDP growth rate was found to be half true while his claim about the unemployment of hygiene workers was found to be entirely true. He was speaking at the New...
