World markets had a swagger about them on Tuesday as upbeat economic data and signs of a revival in inflation pushed up stocks and commodity prices and kept the dollar at a nine-month high. Factory...
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...
Russia is betting oil prices will stay low for a long time. President Vladimir Putin's government has just set a draft budget for the next three years based on the assumption Russia will be able to...
The tumbling value of the pound against the US dollar, euro and other currencies since Britain voted for Brexit could have a significant impact on British consumers and businesses. Earlier, it...
It is no longer news that we are in a recession. Nigerians are groaning under the weight of a dying economy. Food and commodity prices have skyrocketed; some have more than doubled their original...
In our series of letters from African journalists, Didi Akinyelure, the BBC World News Komla Dumor Award Winner, looks at a fresh crop of young, enterprising men and women who have more reason than...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) board has approved Ghana’s third review under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF). The nod was given yesterday . Ghana last week provided in full data...
The country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the second quarter has plummeted to 2.5 percent from the 4.8 percent recorded in the first quarter of 2016, on the back of the technical challenges on...
The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has reveled the shutdown of the Kwame Nkrumah FPSO in the second quarter of 2016 led to a slowdown in Ghana’s economic growth for that period. Gross Domestic...
The Africa Center for Energy Policy (ACEP) has welcomed government’s decision to renegotiate the Sankofa-Gye Nyame Project agreement. Deputy Minister for Petroleum Benjamin Dagadu yesterday...
Ghana’s economy faces a recession if steps are not taken to diversify its productive sectors, the Head of the Economics Department at the University Of Ghana, Professor Peter Quartey has warned....
Moody’s Investors Service (“Moody’s”) has affirmed the Government of Ghana’s issuer and senior unsecured rating at B3 and changed the outlook to stable from negative. The key drivers of...
Government has been charged to spend oil revenues responsibly at all times to enable it to mitigate the negative impact a slowdown in commodity prices may have on the economy as it is currently. This...
The Office of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has noted the discussions on his Public Lecture on the theme – “The State of the Ghanaian Economy – a foundation of Concrete or Straw” – and continues to...
Ghana earned $3.208 billion from petroleum revenue for the production of 161.7 million barrels of crude oil between 2011 and 2015. Although the highest number of barrels, 37.4 million, was recorded...
Building a nation is a task that transcends individual interests or selfish desires of a group of indivisuals. A nation of nearly 30million people will surely be populated by people with divergent...
Campaign coordinator of the National Democratic Congress says President John Mahama's foundation which took almost eight years to lay is so strong it can never crumble. Kofi Adams insists that...
Nigeria is used to making big headlines—it has Africa’s biggest population, Africa’s biggest film industry, and Africa’s biggest bravado. But in August, Nigeria made the news for being...
The Roads and Highway ministry has taken a swipe at the NPP's running mate Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia over what it says were misrepresentations in his analysis of the road sector in the country. A...
Speeches by the vice-presidential nominee of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) always send “shivers within the NDC”, Sydney Casely-Hayford, a member of OccupyGhana, has claimed. For him, the...
