Harnessing West Africa youth workforce could speed
Economic recovery in the post-COVID-19 era
The report points to policies needed to improve skills to empower the West African labour force
Growth in West Africa, poised to expand by 4.0 percent in 2020, now projected to contract by -2.0 percent in 2020; Demand for...
… extends filing of annual returns to December
By Osei Owusu AMANKWAAH
The Registrar-General’s Department (RGD), has indefinitely suspended its planned penalty increase from GH¢400 to GH¢450 which was expected to take effect from August 3, 2020.
The Registrar-General’s Department (RGD), has indefinA statement from the department noted that it has extended...
By Barry EICHENGREEN
COVID-19 is not going away, and other dangerous viruses may be coming. This means it’s time to face the grim truth: many of the pandemic’s effects on our economies and societies will be persistent, even permanent.
Some of these changes are already evident. There is less demand for...
… Providing vital power infrastructure to meet dev.’s needs
Very few people across the world expected to begin the year 2020 locked up in their homes, and faced with restrictions on some of their social freedoms. While many heard the news about the soaring coronavirus infections in China in December...
We should pay closer attention to the interactions between politics, economics, and other realms
By Jeffry FRIEDEN
The COVID-19 pandemic strikingly illustrates the intersection of politics, economics, and other considerations. Public health experts have long warned that the world was likely to face a major pandemic and called for greater preparedness....
… but economist argues move could be counterproductive
By Osei Owusu AMANKWAAH
Government, in giving a glimpse of how the mid-year budget would look like, has directed all State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) to cut down their budgets to redirect the available funds into supporting government’s efforts in the fight against the...
By Francis TIMORE
Over 50 tax experts and lawyers in Ghana on Thursday 9th July 2020 converged online to critically review Ghana’s tax policies, and how to improve tax administration in Ghana.
The program which was organized by the Chartered Institute of Taxation Ghana (CITG), the statutory body set up under...
So far, an estimated US$324million worth of drilling, acquisition and interpretation of seismic, geological and geophysics data projects have been postponed across the petroleum upstream sector, the National Petroleum Commission has said as the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the country’s oil and gas industry.
Among them is...
Kenya’s shilling will come under pressure this week, while Tanzania’s will likely hold firm, traders said. Uganda’s shilling was seen strengthening, Zambia’s kwacha holding ground and Nigeria’s naira weakening.
KENYA
The Kenyan shilling will likely come under pressure due to increased dollar demand from the energy sector and from importers...
As COVID-19 cases continue to increase in AGRA-focus (1) countries, food insecurity remains a concern as economies suffer, AGRA’s COVID-19 Situation Report Number 5 for July 2020 states.
With slowing growth across Africa, governments are launching new initiatives to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 and bring agriculture to the forefront...