Government has been urged to cancel agreements with Independent Power Producers(IPPs) who have not demonstrated the capacity to raise funds. During the power crisis which lasted for almost three...
Government must find alternative means to impose new taxes or increase compliance rate if it is to achieve targets on tax cuts. This is the suggestion from tax consultant, William Owusu Demetia....
Economist Dr. Joe Amoako -Tuffour has cautioned Finance Minister Nominee, Ken Ofori Atta on the need to find sustainable funding for the proposed new regions to be created by the NPP government. He...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has given indication it is open to renegotiating some success benchmarks of its ongoing 3-year External Credit Facility (ECF) programme with the government of...
Former Finance Minister, Seth Terkper, has called for an amendment of the Presidential Transition Act (845) to curtail the anxiety about the economy after a change in government and to help solve...
The Ghana Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) wants the Finance Minister Nominee, Ken Ofori Atta, to fulfill his promise to halt any immediate increase in utility and fuel prices upon assuming...
It appears the Nana Akufo-Addo government may move the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) from the supervision of the Ministry of Finance to the Ministry of Agriculture. Shortly after Dr. Owusu Afriyie...
Ken Ofori Atta may be an experienced banker but running the finance and economic planning of a country is substantially different from running a private bank, Kwesi Pratt, Managing Editor of the...
See full list of Nana Addo’s third batch of Ministerial nominees President Nana Akufo-Addo has named his final list of ministerial appointments at the Flagstaff House. The President on Thursday,...
Oil and gas analyst, Kwame Jantuah has advised the NPP government to increase the country’s capacity to refine more crude at a cheaper cost if it is to reduce the prices of fuel. His comments...
Oil and gas analyst, Kwame Jantuah has advised the NPP government to increase the country’s capacity to refine more crude at a cheaper cost if it is to reduce the prices of fuel. His comments...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Wednesday announced 12 new ministerial nominees creating new portfolios, expectant that the new ministries would accelerate his administration’s quest to...
Founder of think-tank, IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe has frowned at the creation of new ministries by the new government. Mr. Cudjoe has opined that such actions could bring about a drain on the...
Ghana is such a beautiful country, beautiful citizens whose votes can’t be taken for granted. The nation just passed yet another successful election in December 7th 2016 and an Inaugural ceremony...
Director of Research at the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), Dr. Joe Amoako-Tuffour, has slammed immediate past Finance Minister, Seth Terkper, for ostensibly playing a “Ponzi...
Director of Research at the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), Dr. Joe Amoako-Tuffour, has slammed immediate past Finance Minister, Seth Terkper, for ostensibly playing a “Ponzi...
Monitoring and Evaluation Minister-designate Anthony Akoto Osei says his experience as Ranking member of Finance puts him in a good stead to perform well in his new role. He is however not sure if a...
My non-Ghanaian friends have repeatedly asked with keenness the implications of the recent elections in Ghana. I have sometimes not had the luxury of time to adequately capture the significance in...
The release of the first batch of ministers announced yesterday by President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo should signal to Ghanaians that the new occupant of Government House means business. It has taken...
Kenneth Kwamina Thompson, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Dalex Finance and Leasing Company - a leading non-bank financial institution has called on the minister-designate for Finance, Ken...