An Assessment of NPP’s Manifesto Promises
The paper estimates the Total Cost of major NPP Promises in their manifesto and assesses the Party’s proposed tax cuts on economic growth and revenue generation to finance the cost of the...
Tag: Public finance
Interest On Deposits Continues To Taper Off
The average interest paid on deposits in the banking sector has seen a continues decline in three consecutive months, even as banks bid to attract deposits with various promotions, at a time cheap...
Why Bawumia Is A Mortal Threat To the NDC [Article]
Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is the vice presidential candidate of the NPP in the upcoming December 7 elections. It is not in the nature of presidential contests for a party or campaign to aim a significant...
Why Bawumia Is A Threat To NDC
Why Bawumia is a threat to NDC - H Kwasi Prempeh Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is the vice presidential candidate of the NPP in the upcoming December 7 elections. It is not in the nature of presidential...
Why the Bawumia Factor Represents A Mortal Threat To the NDC
Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is the vice presidential candidate of the NPP in the upcoming December 7 elections. It is not in the nature of presidential contests for a party or campaign to aim a significant...
BoG Reduces Policy Rate To 25.5%
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) has reduced the policy rate by 50 basis point to 25.5 percent after holding it at 26 percent for months. The policy rate, which is the...
All Eyes On BoG To Prune Year-Long Policy Rate
As the Monitory Policy Committee of the central bank meets today, expectations of a policy rate cut are high, as the IMF programme appears to have impelled a modicum of prudence in macroeconomic...
Financial Observers Expect A Reduction Today
There is growing expectation on the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to announce a reduction in the policy rate as the governor prepares to publish results of the Monetary Policy Committee meeting later this...
Terkper Hopes For Drop In Policy Rate
The Finance Minister, Mr Seth Terkper, expects the stability in the fiscal side of the economy to provide comfort to the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) and possibly prompt...
The Indefatigable Amidu Shows Mahama How To Uphold UN Convention
Let us extol Mr Martin Amidu, the former Attorney General, in the late Mills administration, for his patriotism, vigilantism and unparalleled intrepidity. As a matter of fact, Mr Amidu has evidenced...
Waging Wars
By Esther A. Armah Tax isn’t sexy. Nobody dreams of taxes. You do not salivate imagining what you might do to taxes or what they might do to you. But, tax matters. And a three day workshop on tax...
Tax Tussle Starts Between Collectors and Payers
In a quest to widen the tax bracket as a way of raking in more revenues for infrastructure development, several Ghanaians have expressed mixed reactions over a number of these new policies in the...
Time To Reduce Policy Rate Now
The business community, backed by some economists have intensified renewed calls for the central back to strongly consider cutting its policy rate to induce growth following the decline in inflation...
EU Warns Eight Nations On Budget Deficit
The European Commission has warned that eight eurozone countries, including Italy, are at risk of breaking EU rules because of excessive budget deficits. Under EU rules, member states are not...
Stabilisation Fund Reaches All-Time Low; Faces Collapse
Government’s consistent lowering of the cap on the Ghana Stabilisation Fund (GSF) could ultimately defeat the purpose for which the Fund was set up, with monies in the Fund expected to reach an...
Stabilisation Fund Reaches All-Time Low
Government’s consistent lowering of the cap on the Ghana Stabilisation Fund (GSF) could ultimately defeat the purpose for which the Fund was set up, with monies in the Fund expected to reach an...
ADB Partners PRC
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have been collaborating since 1986. Thirty years signifies maturity in China, and ADB is eager to develop further, our...
Tax Evaders To Be Denied Access To Passports, Visas
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has announced it will begin rolling out a new policy which will see Ghanaian tax evaders denied access to passports, driver’s license and visas. The policy is...
Tax Evaders To Be Denied Access To Passports & Visas
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has announced it will begin rolling out a new policy which will see Ghanaian tax evaders denied access to passports, driver’s license and visas. The policy is...
Terkper Warns Banks To Demand Contract Budgets From MDAs
The Finance Minister, Mr Seth Terkper, has charged banks to conduct due diligence on loan applications by contractors and suppliers who seek to raise funds to pre-finance government contracts. He...