IMF Backs Ghana’s Domestic Borrowing Drive To Check Ballooning Debts
Government’s decision to turn to the domestic market for loans to finance key projects has received the support of the ...
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IMF Points To Domestic Borrowing As Answer To Growing Debt
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has thrown its weight behind the government’s decision to rely primarily on domestic borrowing to ...
Macroeconomic Performance To Influence Policy Rate
Despite high expectation on the part of the private sector for the Bank of Ghana(BoG) to reduce the policy rate ...
Macroeconomic Performance To Influence Policy Rate- Prof. Quartey
Despite high expectation on the part of the private sector for the Bank of Ghana(BoG) to reduce the policy rate ...
Free SHS Must Target the Poor Alone
The Head of Department of Economics at the University of Ghana, Prof. Peter Quartey, has waded into the ongoing debate ...
Free SHS Will Be Poorly Funded and Fail
Government's ambitious program to fund the free SHS policy in September 2017 will impose an unnecessary burden on government's finances, ...
2017 Budget Not A Panacea To Reduce Policy Rate
Despite government’s intention to pursue a pro business economic agenda in its fiscal policies, some financial observers are skeptical the ...
2017 Budget Not A Panacea To Reduce Policy Rate- Economist
Despite government’s intention to pursue a pro business economic agenda in its fiscal policies, some financial observers are skeptical the ...
Stimulus Package In 2017 Budget Juicy
The head of the Economics Department of the University of Ghana has described as juicy the stimulus package announced by ...
High Expectations As Akufo-Addo Firms Up Policies With First SONA Today
President Nana Akufo-Addo is set to deliver his first State of the Nation Address (SONA) Tuesday and he is expected ...
Change of Gov’t In Ghana Won’t Affect Bailout Deal – IMF
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has watered down arguments that conditionalities under its Extended Credit Facility (ECF) agreement with Ghana ...
Economists Back Economic Capital For Banks
Some economists have backed the Bank of Ghana’s proposal to introduce economic capital requirement for banks as part of strategies ...
IMF Approves Ghana’s Third Review
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) board has approved Ghana’s third review under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF). The nod was ...
GDP Growth Slumps To 2.5%
The country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the second quarter has plummeted to 2.5 percent from the 4.8 percent recorded ...
Ghana Risks Entering Into Recession
Ghana’s economy faces a recession if steps are not taken to diversify its productive sectors, the Head of the Economics ...