Budget Deficit Missed In 1st Seven Months
Government missed its budget deficit target in the first seven months of 2016 as the government raised less revenue than forecast and exceeded spending plans for goods, services and capital...
Tag: International Monetary Fund
Mahama Questions Whereabouts of HIPC Funds
The President, John Dramani Mahama, has virtually questioned the whereabouts of the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) fund, which came to the Kufuor-led government, as a result of debt...
More Banks Resort To Stock Market For Capital
About eight banks will resort to the capital market, or at worst undertake private placement, to raise funds to meet the expected new capital requirement for all banks in Ghana, Business Finder has...
Thousands of Reasoning Why Making Job Creation A Focal Point of Any Government In Ghana Rather Than Creating An Enabling Environment Is Disastrous.
Introduction The control and allocation of resources in any country depends on the economic system being practiced. While others are identify with socialism or the capitalism, others seem to combine...
Fitch Predicts NPP Victory, But Warns of Re-Run
A report by Fitch Group, a UK-based research company, has predicted that the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, will win the December 7 presidential election. The...
Zimbabwe Pays Off IMF Arrears
A cash shortage has led to long queues at many of the country's banks Zimbabwe has paid the International Monetary Fund (IMF) more than $100m (£83m) to settle its arrears with the organisation, the...
The Killers Of Private Businesses At Work Again
In the developed nations, there are private family enterprises that were set up in small garages, centuries ago, but have become household names today, and thriving. Examples are the Toyotas,...
My 170 Economic Claims Yet To Be Challenged
New Patriotic Party (NPP) Vice-Presidential candidate Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has once again demanded that government responds to his 170 economic claims contained in a lecture where he denounced the...
Mahama Increases Loan For Tertiary Students
President John Dramani Mahama has announced an upward review of existing loan rates for tertiary students under the Students Loan Trust. From the lowest rate of GH¢750 and the highest rate of...
Blame Mahama’s NDC For Ghana’s Calamitous Debt and Economy
Ghana is not among the most popular destination to set up business. The few entrepreneurs and investors we have had were attracted to the country due to it's natural resources as well as the fact...
Blame President Mahama’s NDC For Ghana’s Calamitous Debt And Economy
Ghana is not among the most popular destination to set up business. The few entrepreneurs and investors we have had were attracted to the country due to it's natural resources as well as the fact...
NDC Is Very Happy About EIU’s Predictions – Asiedu Nketia
General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia has said that the party is very happy with the prediction by the Economic Intelligence Unit (IEU) that the party...
NDC Plays Down EIU Prediction of NPP Victory
The Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) has predicted victory for the flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in the December presidential election. The NPP, it...
EIU Prediction Can’t Move NDC
A legal practitioner with the governing National Democratic Congress says a prediction by London-based Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) that the New Patriotic Party will win the December polls will...
Economy In Crisis, Gov’t Confesses
Contrary to government’s denial of a weakening economy, Business Finder can confirm that the same government has admitted difficult economic times to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). A letter...
Why Are Voltarians Leaving Rawlings To His Fate?
It is quite strange that those ungrateful cabals in the NDC Party could go to an extreme length of plotting evil against the very person whose brainchild (NDC Party) has made them ‘somebody’s’....
EIU Predicts Another NPP Win In 2016 Polls
London-based Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) has for the second time predicted a win for the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the December 7 polls. In April this year, EIU predicted a close...
The Fall and Rise of Ghana’s Debt
Ghana is in a debt crisis. Despite having had significant amounts of debt cancelled a decade ago, the country is losing around 30% of government revenue in external debt payments each year. 1 Such...
Ghana In Serious Debt Crisis
A new report, jointly published by seven organizations, has revealed that Ghana is in a debt crisis because the country is losing around 30% of government revenue in external debt payments each year....
Debt Crisis Hits Ghana
A NEW report, jointly published by seven organizations, has revealed that Ghana is in a debt crisis because the country is losing around 30% of government revenue in external debt payments each year....