The Finance Ministry has granted financial clearance to the Health Ministry for the recruitment of 8,634 health care personnel to provide health care at varying levels across the country. Of the...
As the Monitory Policy Committee of the central bank meets today, expectations of a policy rate cut are high, as the IMF programme appears to have impelled a modicum of prudence in macroeconomic...
The country’s debt stock has reached GH¢112.4 billion as at September this year a summary of economic and financial data released by the Bank of Ghana (BoG) has revealed. This came to the fore...
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's approval rating has slumped to a new low since Donald Trump won the U. S. presidency last week, in part due to his invitation of the real estate tycoon to...
The Finance Minister, Mr Seth Terkper, expects the stability in the fiscal side of the economy to provide comfort to the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) and possibly prompt...
Ecobank Ghana has launched the Ecobank Mobile App, an instant and convenient way of banking via the mobile phone. It is the first unified app delivered by any institution for use in 33 countries and...
Mexico just showed the first signs of its "contingency plan" to weather a Donald Trump presidency. To save the suffering Mexican peso, the central bank, known as Banxico, raised its key interest rate...
A former Finance Minister, Kwame Peprah has dismissed the overly ambitious and vote grabbing promise by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to the effect that they would create a factory in every district...
Government has signed a loan agreement with the African Development Bank to provide 83 million dollars for the construction of the Pokuase Interchange as government provides 11 million dollars....
19 banks owed under the ‘legacy debt’ received second payment in the first quarter of September. This was part of schedule of payment as agreed between the banks and government. The Ministry of...
Finance Minister Seth Terkper is predicting that the significant drop in inflation is likely to force interest rate down in the coming days. Inflation for the month of October 2016 declined from the...
Government’s consistent lowering of the cap on the Ghana Stabilisation Fund (GSF) could ultimately defeat the purpose for which the Fund was set up, with monies in the Fund expected to reach an...
The Finance Minister, Mr Seth Terkper, has defended the government’s decision to raise a GH¢438-million bond at a rate of 19 per cent, explaining that interest on the 10-year loan is the second...
The Minister of Finance Seth Terpker has disclosed that the government will soon complete the payment of the country’s first 750 million dollar Eurobond which was issued in 2007. According to Seth...
Government’s consistent lowering of the cap on the Ghana Stabilisation Fund (GSF) could ultimately defeat the purpose for which the Fund was set up, with monies in the Fund expected to reach an...
MOGADISHU — The Somali National Army (SNA), backed by troops from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), on Tuesday captured Mir-tugo village in the central Somali region of Middle Shabelle...
The Zambian government and the mining industry have agreed to resolve the case of electricity tariffs out of court, state media reported on Tuesday. On April 2, 2014, the country’s energy regulator...
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Flagbearer, President John Mahama, has no plans to reduce the price of petroleum products ahead of the 2016 elections. This is according to the Campaign...
The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) has joined a long list of advocates that have urged government to seriously consider restoring its hedging programme in order to cushion the...
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Flagbearer, President John Mahama, has no plans to reduce the price of petroleum products ahead of the 2016 elections. This is according to the Campaign...
