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Claims By Bawumia Fact-Checked, Only One Entirely True

The National Patriotic Party (NPP) launched its 2016 manifesto in Accra, this Sunday and a team of fact-checkers...

Business

Favourable Economic Outlook For Ghana Is Conditional

The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) director for Africa has indicated that the favourable economic growth for the...

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Evidence of Mahama’s Success Is In People, Not Statistics

Deputy Finance Minister, Ato Forson says NPP Vice-Presidential candidate Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is too fixated on...

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Nearly 385 Million Children Live In Extreme Poverty – UNICEF

Children are more than twice as likely as adults to live in extreme poverty, according to a new analysis from the World...

Business

GIPC Records 400% Increase In Initial Transfers For Q2 2016

The second quarter of 2016 has been a good time for foreign direct investments (FDI) in Ghana in comparison to the same...

Business

Amend New BoG Act

Barely two months after parliament passed the Bank of Ghana (BoG) Amendment Bill, the International Monetary Fund (IMF)...

Business

Economy Shrinks By $1.8billion

The size of the Ghanaian economy (including oil) shrunk from US$38.5 billion recorded in 2014 to US$36.7 billion in...

International

The World’s Largest Experiment In Giving People Free Money Launches In October

A groundbreaking social experiment will begin in Kenya in roughly one month. The charity GiveDirectly will begin giving...

Opinion

Practice Foundations of Nkrumaism

The book’s title is “The Theory of Philosophical Consciencism: Practice Foundations of Nkrumahism.”(ISBN:...

Opinion

Rational Foundations of Nkrumaism

“His publication list for this decision process begins with two 1982 papers, includes a 1989, and then encompasses...

Business

Focus On Agric For Real Development

Head of Economic Division at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), Dr. Charles Ackah, has...

Politics

Moody’s Changes Ghana’s Creditworthiness From Negative To Stable

Moody’s Investors Service (“Moody’s”) has affirmed the Government of Ghana’s issuer and senior unsecured...

Business

Ban On Imports Not Solution To Trade Imbalances

An advisor to the Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Mr. Franklin Belnye has kicked against the placement of ban on some...

Politics

Employed, Unemployed Or Under-Employed?

Among the key issues in this year’s elections which has been brought to the front burner is the issue of...

International

Nigeria Forex Crisis and Unfinished Naira-Yuan Swap Deal

Barely five months after a currency swap deal between Nigeria and China was enmeshed in controversy, the country’s...

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NPP Wasteful With Foreign Loans – Fifi Kwettey

The opposition New Patriotic Party(NPP) borrowed 750 million dollars from the International Financial Market in 2007,...

Business

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...

Opinion

Economy Of Effort

Reminiscing the time where children were begged to pursue formal education as a result of their distaste to corporal...

International

Bank of Japan Re-Strategize To Recuperate Economy

The Bank of Japan said Wednesday that it's introducing a new long-term interest rate target of around zero. The bank...