IFC affirms commitment to financial sector

Credit to the private sector expanded 41.2 percent year-on-year in June 2026 to GH¢119.6billion, one of the fastest paces on record, according to data published by the Bank of Ghana (BoG).

The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) has called for a renewed national commitment to strategic industrialisation.

Government has outlined tax and customs reforms aimed at easing the burden on businesses, improving compliance and strengthening domestic revenue mobilisation without introducing new taxes.

Operationalisation of government’s poultry farm-to-table project, dubbed the ‘Nkoko Nketenkete’ initiative, has been expanded further to 100 percent capacity regarding availability of day-old-chicks for distribution under the programme.

Three more Telecel customers have been rewarded with cash prizes in the second monthly prize presentation of the ongoing Telecel Dream Car Promo.

Long before she became one of Ghana’s applauded marketing professionals, Dinah Asabea Darko was the outspoken child who rarely wanted the day to end.

Africa’s economic transformation will depend not only on the movement of goods and capital but also on the ability of people, skills and ideas to move freely across borders, Dr Ishmael Yamson, a member of Ghana’s Presidential Advisory Group on the Economy, has said.

Government will amend the Public Financial Management (Amendment) Act, 2025 (Act 1136) to reduce the statutory primary balance floor from 1.5 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to 0.5 percent from 2027, Finance Minister Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson told parliament yesterday in the 2026 Mid-Year Fiscal Policy Review.