Ethiopia seeks to stem surging inflation Ethiopia’s rising inflation has forced the country’s central bank to double the cash reserve ratio requirement for commercial banks...
Allowing for more exchange rate flexibility can help reduce FX borrowing needs, as well as lower the FX risk premium in domestic interest rates,...
The cedi’s 2021 overvaluation has abated – by 14ppt to 113.2% – since 2020, with recent currency weakness helping close the overvaluation gap. This is...
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), a fiscal policy think-tank, has called for the state to take over the commanding heights of Ghana’s extractive...
The Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) is exploring the prospect of using the country’s information technology sector’s potential to increase revenue generated from Non-Traditional...
Mrs Abena Osei-Asare, the Deputy Finance Minister in charge of Revenue, has reaffirmed government commitment to addressing revenue shortfalls, a long-standing challenge for the...
Ghana has received the equivalent of US$1billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), being its share of the new Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) allocation...
The end result of the two world wars, coupled with a Great Depression was enormous physical and economic destruction in both Europe and the United...
Converting debt liabilities into investments that protect children is good economics and an ethical imperative At the height of Africa’s debt crisis in the mid-1980s,...
The IMF’s record $650bn reserves distribution came into effect earlier this week, with the fund’s managing director Kristalina Georgieva calling on wealthy nations to...