The conference is expected to be opened with a keynote address Secretary-General of UNCTAD Rescue Shipping and Investment Agency, a Tema-based freight forwarding company, is organising Ghana’s...
Egypt is pursuing a raft of reforms to try to revive an economy weakened by years of turmoil, but analysts say that wooing foreign investors will take time. Since the 2011 uprising, the Arab world's...
Tunisia is seeking to stimulate foreign investment in order to revive the country’s economy, which has been stagnant for almost 15 years. Recent data indicates that the country lost nothing less...
Ghana might record a possible downgrade by credit rating agencies during their periodic assessments of economies in Africa. The recent publications by Standard & Poor rated Ghana B- with a stable...
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has seen a consistent drop in five years, by 65.85percent, since peaking at US$6.3billion in 2011, while the value of registered local businesses has, encouragingly,...
President-elect Donald Trump promised to bring jobs back to America's Rust Belt by getting tough on Mexico and China. To do that, Trump threatens to use tariffs. His argument: if he makes doing...
“Sadly, the compliance level of the oil and gas exploration and production companies in payment of levies and taxes is very low and in fact, pitiable,” contained in a letter Governor Henry...
The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) has recorded a total of 51 projects valued at US$1.45 billion in the second quarter of the year, with a foreign direct investment (FDI) component valued...
Nigeria alongside others with economic challenges can access long time concessionary facilities from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) at zero interest rate, as the Fund has introduced zero...
The second quarter of 2016 has been a good time for foreign direct investments (FDI) in Ghana in comparison to the same time last year (Q2 of 2015). There have been percentage increases in all...
Finance Minister Seth Terpker is leading government’s delegation to the International Monetary Fund (IMF)/World Bank meetings which open in Washington DC from October 4 to 14. He is joined by the...
Economist, Dr. Lord Mensah says the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had no choice but to approve the third tranche of funding under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF). According to the Dr. Mensah,...
A tax evasion amnesty in India has prompted tens of thousands of people to declare more than $9.5bn (£7.3bn) in undeclared income and assets. Finance minister Arun Jaitley said the four-month window...
Dr Joe Abbey, Executive Director of the Centre for Policy Analysis (CEPA), has disclosed that even though the extended credit facility of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to Ghana was restoring...
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Funds (IMF) has approved the disbursement of some $116 million to Ghana. This was after the board completed the third Extended Credit Facility review...
Long-term funds could drastically reduce the cost of mortgages, Head of Commercial Banking at Stanbic Bank, Abdul-Jaleel Hussein, has said, urging his peers in the banking industry to innovate in...
A concerned citizen who is fighting against the privatization of Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has petitioned the US Ambassador to investigate what he says are ‘unethical’ and ‘unlawful’...
Ghana has received a US$700-million guarantee from the World Bank for its Offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP)- Sankofa gas project ahead of anticipated oil and gas production in 2017 and 2018,...
The Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper says Transport Minister, Fifi Kwetey, was being deceptive when he said the New Patriotic Party (NPP) wasted a $750 million loan facility in...
