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State Housing Company Limited (SHC) and Absa Bank Ghana have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at expanding access to mortgage financing and helping address Ghana's estimated housing deficit of 1.8 million units.

Ghana’s investment priorities and opportunities across key sectors will be presented to international business audiences in a new series of Global Platform videos featuring Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama and senior public- and private-sector leaders.

The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has called for an increase in the mandatory share of gold purchased by Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod) from large-scale mining companies to 50 percent from the current 30 percent.

Ghana’s building cost inflation rose to 4 percent in July 2026 from 3.1 percent for June as higher material and plant costs more than offset a decline in labour costs, Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has reported.

The Bank of Ghana is using Artificial Intelligence and machine-learning tools to strengthen inflation and growth forecasts as it seeks to reduce the time it takes for policymakers to identify shifts in economic conditions and respond to emerging risks.

The Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) has partnered AFRICA’s BRAIN BANK to support a six-day international summit in September that will culminate in the groundbreaking for a proposed Historic Medical City in Ada, positioning the project at the intersection of healthcare development, investment and medical tourism.

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) is renewing its push for lifestyle audits, unexplained wealth laws and broader non-conviction-based asset recovery powers after a Supreme Court ruling restored certainty over its prosecutorial mandate, the Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng has said.

Ghana’s growing financial strength among its diaspora has yet to translate into broad-based absorption of the country’s expanding housing stock, with industry data indicating that the domestic market remains the dominant source of demand for homes.