International leaders are gathering in London on Thursday to thrash out agreements with Somalia aimed at stabilising the country under its new political leadership. The one-day conference is looking...
Stakeholders in the financial sector have pushed for the establishment of a Fiscal Council to put the government on its toes in observing prudence in public expenditure. According to the Public...
Government’s decision on a possible extension of the IMF deal is likely to be concluded next month. This is the indication from the Chairman of Parliament’s Finance Committee, Dr. Mark Assibey...
World Bank Country Director Henry Kerali has confirmed the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is in discussions with Ghana over extension of the Fund program. This confirms earlier reports by...
Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a new three-year arrangement for Togo under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) worth (US$241.5million) to support the country’s...
BY: Ivor Agyeman-Duah If Ghana’s 60-year-old post-colonial economy had a human form, it could be on retirement with an ambivalent score. For what is it that blows cold today and hot tomorrow? Ten...
The Akufo-Addo government on March 2 presented its 2017 Budget and Economic Policy statement dubbed the Asempa Budget to the nation through Parliament. The Budget read by Finance Minister Ken Ofori...
Female genital mutilation is truly a controversial subject and an abhorrent practice We continue from Part 1 (Note: In New York, this author sat in a class with a Guinean/Senegalese/Sierra Leonean...
Egypt's parliament on Sunday adopted a law whose aim is to attract foreign investors to the country as authorities seek to redress its struggling economy. Political instability and jihadist attacks...
The small, palm-fringed fishing town of Palma was meant to become a symbol of Mozambique's glittering future, transformed by one of the world's largest liquefied natural gas projects. But...
The World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) has committed US$1.2 billion to support Ghana’s economy over the next three years. The allocation, which will span July 2017 to June...
A Deputy Attorney General and Minister of Justice Godfred Yeboah Dame has described as “much ado about nothing” the controversy that gripped the recent issuance of a $2.5billion bond by the...
With their last president detained and awaiting trial for corruption, South Koreans go to the polls Tuesday to choose her successor, but the economic and social frustrations that fuelled anger...
government is expected to extend programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which should be ending in April next year. The likely extension sources say has been influenced by the previous...
The Finance Minister, Mr. Ken Ofori-Atta, has told Ghanaian Diaspora that the President Akufo-Addo-led government is focused on having an institutional mechanism to tap their capital and knowledge...
Opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro have set up roadblocks and staged demonstrations demanding elections as the country's political and economic crisis deepens. They responded with...
World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim has warned that developing countries including Ghana stand the risk of losing credibility if they keep competing with the private sector in developing businesses...
Oil-exporting Arab states of the Gulf are heading "in the right direction" to plug budgetary gaps thanks to fiscal reforms, but more change is still necessary, the International Monetary Fund said...
A clear theme running through the meetings was the need to protect the growth momentum The world’s economic leaders and stakeholders came together at the 2017 IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings...
Organised Labour on May May underscored its confidence in the administration of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to steer the country out of poverty and hopelessness to a path of great future full of hope...
