Juapong Textiles Workers Angry
Tongues are wagging at the Volta Star Textiles Company Limited (VSTL), a state-owned world-class yarn and grey baft-producing company in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region. This...
Tag: Ghana Exim Bank
Ghana Targets $10 Billion From Non-Traditional Exports
The government has targeted generating $10 billion annually in non-traditional export earnings within the next four years, Ms. Gifty Kekeli Clenam, Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Export...
Take Advantage of ECOWAS Markets To Boost Trade
Governments should take advantage of the enormous opportunities that markets in the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) offered to boost trade and investment among member states,...
Businesses Demand Cuts In New Import Levy
Businesses in the import and export trade are demanding a reduction in the new EXIM levy on imports. They argue that the development will increase the cost of operation and overburden final...
Economic Growth Will Not Slump
Finance Minister Mr Seth Terkper has expressed optimism that there will be no reversal in the growth of the economy following the several investment and prudent policy measures put in place by the...
Gov’t Halts Further Processing of IPPs
Government has directed the Ministry of Power to halt the processing of application for Independent Power Plants in the country. The move is aimed at assessing the situation to determine the...
Govt Halts Further Processing of IPPs
Government has directed the Ministry of Power to halt the processing of application for Independent Power Plants in the country. The move is aimed at assessing the situation to determine the...
Growth In Petroleum Sector To Boost Agric – Terkper
Finance Minister Seth Terkper has indicated that the expansion of the petroleum industry will not hamper the contribution of agriculture to the Ghanaian economy. He was of the view that the...
EXIM Bank Will Provide Soft Loans For SMEs
As Ghana prepares to launch the Ghana EXIM Bank next week, the Chief Executive Officer of the bank, Dr. Barfour Osei has refuted claims that the bank will compete with commercial banks in providing...
EXIM Bank Will Provide Soft Loans For SMEs- CEO
As Ghana prepares to launch the Ghana EXIM Bank next week, the Chief Executive Officer of the bank, Dr. Barfuor Osei has refuted claims that the bank will compete with commercial banks in providing...
Public Debt To Reduce To 40% of GDP By 2021
President John Dramani Mahama has expressed the commitment of the government to reduce the public debt to about 40 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) by 2021. He said the...
Government Making Strides To Stabilize the Economy
He said the prospect of the economy was good, as has been indicated by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its recent report. However, the government was not being complacent but was continuing...
Exim Bank Can Be Transformative
The newly established Ghana Export Import Bank (Ghana EXIM) can boost exports and reduce country’s the balance of trade deficit, except that it has to be properly structured and well-funded,...
Mahama Needs $24bn To Implement 75% Manifesto Promises – IMANI
Policy Think Tank IMANI Africa, has stated that the next Mahama-led administration – if given the nod in the upcoming elections - will need an amount of $24 billion to implement 75 percent of the...
IMANI Scrutinises NDC’s Manifesto Highlights
President Mahama presented the highlights of the NDC’s manifesto in the evening of 13th September 2016 in Accra. By ‘highlights’ he obviously meant the most important, most high-impact, and...