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Gov’t to roll out six major expenditure cut measures

Economy

Mid-year budget: 1m promised jobs for the youth must be sustainable

The mid-year budget is here! And once again, the citizenry will be looking at government to account for how much has gone out from...

Economy

Ghana plans to issue Africa’s first social bond: what you must know

The government of Ghana in its 2021 budget indicated that it plans to raise up to $5 billion in the international capital markets this...

The passage of outstanding revenue bills by Parliament remains critical to government programmes as well as to enable the state to complete four of the five agreed prior actions in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Staff Level Agreemen

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Mid-year budget: Be firm on informal sector revenue collection – Tax analyst

Government must take advantage of the current economic circumstances to improve informal sector revenue mobilisation in the 2021 Mid-year budget set to be presented...

Economy

BoG keeps policy rate over increasing debt stock, inflation

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank has maintained the policy rate at 13.5 percent, as concerns over rising debt stock and...

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Minister for Employment initiates mass pension enrolment programme

The Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, Ignatius Barfour Awuah has initiated a mass pension enrolment programme by paying for a year’s pension contribution...

Economy

47 public enterprises fail to submit financials to gov’t in 6 years – Ofori-Atta

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has revealed that for the past six years 47 public enterprises have submitted no financial statements to his ministry, a...

On Tuesday, July 2, 2013, all commercial banks started implementing this new formula for calculating the minimum lending rate for borrowers.

Economy

BoG maintains policy rate at 13.5 percent

The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) has maintained the policy rate at 13.5 percent. The policy rate is the rate at...

Economy

Transparency on GSE rebuilding confidence in financial sector – NPRA Dep. CEO

At a time when confidence in the nation’s financial sector is at its lowest ebb - as a fallout of the clean-up exercise undertaken...

Economy

Reinstate 17.5% GETFUND/NHIL to former status—Tax analyst

As the finance minister prepares to deliver the mid-year budget and supplementary estimates to parliament on Thursday, a tax analyst - Francis Timore Boi...

Economy

AZA Finance FX Week Ahead: Delay To East African Single Currency Mirrors Eco

The East African Community Council of Ministers is due to meet before the end of this year to revisit the roadmap for implementing a...

Economy

Cedi rally cutting foreign debt load

The Black Star Experience: Ambitious cultural and tourism initiative set to transform creative economy

120 days of President Mahama: The faces behind the early gains

Why Africa must respond to US tariffs with economic unity, not fragmented retaliation

How Export-Ready SMEs Can Drive Africa’s Trade Growth Under AfCFTA

Revenue reset: GRA intensifies efforts to improve tax collection, compliance

The merry-go-round of the industrial growth

Mid-year budget: 1m promised jobs for the youth must be sustainable

Ghana plans to issue Africa’s first social bond: what you must know

Mid-year budget: Be firm on informal sector revenue collection – Tax analyst

BoG keeps policy rate over increasing debt stock, inflation

Minister for Employment initiates mass pension enrolment programme

47 public enterprises fail to submit financials to gov’t in 6 years – Ofori-Atta

BoG maintains policy rate at 13.5 percent

Transparency on GSE rebuilding confidence in financial sector – NPRA Dep. CEO

Reinstate 17.5% GETFUND/NHIL to former status—Tax analyst

AZA Finance FX Week Ahead: Delay To East African Single Currency Mirrors Eco