I could hardly believe my eyes when I skimmed through President John Dramani Mahama’s pledge to tackle the menace of corruption in his next term in office when given the mandate to govern the...
Professor Felix Asante, Director of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) has indicated that signs on the wall points to the fact that the Ghanaian economy is not robust,...
President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Tanzanian counterpart John Pombe Magufuli at State House, Nairobi Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli has been turning heads in the region being not travelling...
Finance Minister Seth Terkper has revealed that government will lose about GHS1billion if some new taxes introduced are scrapped. The minister who dispelled accusations that he tax-happy indicated...
Disappointing revenue performance and increased capital expenditure have pushed up the country’s fiscal deficit to more than GHC4.69 billion as of the end of July this year, creating uneasiness...
Policy arguments about what drives economic growth have traditionally focused on capital, infrastructure and innovation, inter alia. There is no question the crucial role that such fundamentals play...
Policy arguments about what drives economic growth have traditionally focused on capital, infrastructure and innovation, inter alia. There is no question the crucial role that such fundamentals play...
Mrs. Sally Molley of the Small Tax Payer Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority has advised Small and Medium Enterprises to keep proper records to enable them to know their expenses and the right...
Government borrowing rose by more than expected, to £10.6bn in September, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The figure was £1.3bn higher than the same month last...
Thousands of Tunisian lawyers went on strike on Friday to protest at new taxes and tighter fiscal controls on their profession, extending a series of demonstrations against austerity measures in the...
The pledge to eradicate hunger and poverty must go hand in hand with rapid transformations of farming and food systems to cope with a warmer world, FAO said today in a new report. Agriculture,...
As the Finance Minister prepares to present a first quarter 2017 budget to parliament on Thursday, Economist Dr. Ebo Turkson has urged the government to clearly demonstrate how it intends to finance...
Who will conjure the American Dream back for us? Politics is part prestidigitation, part reality. A great magician distracts her audience’s attention while producing the payoff. Abracadabra! Want...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has stated that Ghana is making progress in its economic management but cautioned that the country will have to ride on a bumpy path to economic recovery. The...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has stated that Ghana was making progress in its economic management but cautioned that the country will have to ride on a bumpy path to economic recovery....
The Chief Executive Officer of Comet Properties Limited, Nana Odeneho Kweku Kyeremateng, has asked political parties contesting this year’s election to tell Ghanaians how they intend to generate...
As a matter of fact, a fantastically corrupt public servant is no less a human rights violator than the enigmatic Adolf Hitler. For, whereas Adolf Hitler savagely exterminated innocent people with...
With two months to the December general elections in Ghana, analysts and development partners have expressed concerns about Ghana’s worsening debt situation as well as government’s spending...
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...
The governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) Dr. Abdul Nashir Issahaku has described as worrying the country’s current average lending rate which is hovering around 33 percent. According to the Dr....
