Economist Prof Ernest Aryeetey has advised government to pursue investments in the agricultural and manufacturing sector which he believes can contribute significantly to the country’s Gross...
Founder and Executive Dean of the Nobel International Business School (NiBS) Professor Kwaku Atuahene Gima is urging businesses to put on the cap of creativity to take advantage of the emerging...
The implementation of the Free Senior High School programme by the Akufo-Addo-led government will come at huge cost to the country, Derrick Essuman, an economist at the Institute of Statistical,...
Government must provide attractive remuneration and incentives to teachers in the various public schools to serve as motivation for better performance, educationist Dr Kofi Orleans-Lindsay has said....
Once one of Africa's biggest car buyers, Algeria is embarking on an ambitious programme aimed at replacing hundreds of thousands of foreign imports with domestically produced models to keep drivers...
The government and stakeholders in education have been called upon to focus more on technical and vocational education. A senior lecturer at Kumasi Technical University and economist, Kusi Boafo,...
A 28-year-old media practitioner in Hohoe, Shalom Abla Lumor, is determined to break the age barrier and represent the Volta Region on the Council of State. According to Ms Lumor, the Council has...
Chattered economist, Mr. Emmanuel Amoah-Darkwah has argued that it will be prudent for Ghana to own a national carrier. According to him, the aviation industry in Ghana and the sub-region is much...
A Peruvian court has issued an international warrant for the arrest of ex-President Alejandro Toledo on suspicions of taking bribes from a Brazilian construction giant at the heart of a region-wide...
Vice President of the Association of Ghana industries, Mr. Humphrey Ayim Darkeh has said that business confidence in the Ghanaian economy has surged up not because the business structures have...
Discussions between Ghana’s economic team and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are set to generate revised targets which should see the Ghanaian economy placed on a sound footing after years...
U. S. stocks opened lower on Monday as investors sought fresh catalysts after a strong jobs report last week, while uncertainty over President Donald Trump's policies continued to weigh. Investors...
America added 227,000 jobs in January, well ahead of December's gain of 157,000 jobs. The unemployment rate ticked up a bit to 4.8%. More Americans started looking for work again -- a good sign --...
The dollar inched fractionally higher on Friday, as it limped toward U. S. jobs data facing its fourth straight weekly fall in what has already been its worst start to a year in three decades. The...
Ghana’s three-week-old government says it found a 7 billion-cedi ($1.6 billion) hole in the budget, a disclosure that sent its bonds tumbling. “We have been very surprised by the fiscal data,”...
Ghana’s three-week-old government said it found a 7 billion-cedi ($1.6 billion) hole in the budget, a disclosure that sent its bonds tumbling. “We have been very surprised by the fiscal data,”...
As the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta officially assumes his office today; some financial observers have charged him to immediately reduce the appetite for borrowing. According to some public...
Lagos (AFP) - Nearly two years after taking office, Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari is making good on an election vow to help the poor, deploying a welfare scheme that is gaining traction across...
Ghanaians have been urged to temper their expectations of the new New Patriotic Party (NPP) government because economic data puts managers of the economy in a very tight corner. The grimmest data is...
The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) has maintained the policy rate for the first time this year at 25.5 percent. The policy rate, which is the rate at which the central bank...
