Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said Government has begun implementing policies and programmes intended to make Ghana the most business-friendly country in Africa.
These include ensuring fiscal discipline, cutting the budget deficits, managing the national debt and undertaking measures to fight corruption, he said.
Vice President Bawumia said this when...
Mr. Kofi Sekyere, Chairman of Kumasi City Mall, has said it is about time Ghanaians saw shopping malls as potential markets for locally produced and manufactured goods to enable retail shopping facilities to contribute towards the country’s import substitution strategy.
Mr. Sekyere made this observation when the President, Nana Addo...
President Nana Akufo-Addo has expressed worry over the influx of cheap imported goods in most shopping malls and supermarkets in the country, to the disadvantage of locally produced goods, which constitute less than five percent of goods on sale.
The development, the president said at the opening of the Kumasi...
Ms. Eva Mends, a Chief Economics Officer has been appointed as the Acting Director of Budget at the Ministry of Finance,the first ever female to be appointed a Director of Budget at the Ministry.
Ms. Mends, the Group Head of the Public Financial Management Reforms, joined the Ministry as a...
Dun&Bradstreet(D&B) Ghana and Invest In Africa, IIA, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), to support small and medium scale enterprises(SMEs) to make them investor ready through credit referencing.
With the signing of the MOU, it is expected that IIA and D&B will support SMEs on the African Partner Pool...
Government will soon introduce a procurement policy that will bond its agencies and large companies operating in the country to source majority of their raw materials and inputs from local producers once such inputs are available, Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah, a Deputy Trade and Industry Minister, has said.
“The policy will...
The Ministry of Finance has appointed new officers to key positions in the Ministry in a bid to help push the reforms the government intends to pursue.
Overall four persons have been appointed to augment the work at the Ministry, including Ms Eva Mends, Eugene Asante Ofosuhene, Sampson Akligoh and...
Government must, as a matter of priority, be committed to employing the right number of qualified nurses into public health facilities, regardless of whether the bonding arrangement it has with trainee nurses is revoked, Dr. Justice Yankson, Deputy General Secretary of the Ghana Medical Association has said.
More hands, he...
“The Mystery of Capital”, a book written by the Peruvian Economist Hernando De Soto, immediately comes to mind anytime one considers Ghana’s fiscal situation. This book examines the importance of the extralegal sector to the economy. The extralegal sector is made up of assets, properties and businesses that fall...