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...
Head of Economic Division at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), Dr. Charles Ackah, has observed that until government turns its focus on agriculture and...
Ghana's economic growth slowed to 2.5 percent in the second quarter compared with a year earlier, provisional official data showed on Wednesday, due mainly to a temporary halt in oil production....
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,...
Ghana’s headline inflation is likely to slow further downwards raising prospects of a series of interest rate cuts as the government moves to spur growth. The country’s headline inflation rose to...
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....
The Chief Executive of Petroleum Commission, Mr Theophilus Ahwireng has touted the prospects of the country’s gas production as it is set to produce about 300 million cubic feet of gas daily by...
Why Ghana gov't needs to rethink too many Eurobond issues Introduction There are several advantages that Eurobond brings to the issuing country. The main advantage is to increase the liquidity and...
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...
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has said his government is not ready to negotiate with Boko Haram until it is clear who is leading the terror group. “I gave directives on three different...
Rating agency, Moody’s has reviewed Ghana’s issuer outlook from negative to stable, maintaining the rating at B3. The key drivers for the review, according to the rating agency, is the...
Frank Agyekum, spokesperson for former President John Agyekum Kufuor, has entreated Ghanaians to ignore claims by the Minister for Transport, Fifi Kwetey, that the New Patriotic Party under former...
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...
I am no longer surprised why today we have such sky-high rates of prostate conditions. We have, by design and negligence, allowed our food and environment to become so toxic that disease is the...
Ghana: An engine of PR and communications growth in West Africa By Adam Wakefield As media markets across the African continent become more sophisticated, so do the demands upon its growing PR and...
All multinational companies in Ghana mining natural resources should brace themselves to pay more in taxes IF there is a change in government after the 2016 polls. This is according to the Convention...
The World Bank last Thursday approved a US$700 million guarantee for Ghana’s third oil and gas production field, Sankofa-Gye-Nyame, which is said to contain more than 200 million barrels of oil and...
As work on the Gye Nyame Sankofa field reaches 54 percent, the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) has assured that it will work the with the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) to...
Selling ourselves into 21st Century slavery; the regrettable story of ECG "WE HAD TRADED IN THE MARKET COMPETITIVELY PERFECT TILL YOU CAME, ...AND CUT OUR RIBS, DRIED OUR COWS." -("EXPELLED" by Jared...
A 7-person team of anti-corruption police officers from the National Crime Agency (NCA) is currently in Nigeria to interview several associates and accomplices of former Petroleum Minister, Diezani...
