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Domestic passenger throughput increases by 26%

Domestic passenger throughput for the first nine months of this year has increased by 26 percent - from about 136,731 to 184,772 - following...

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New application to detect ghost names ready

The Public Services Commission (PSC) is hopeful of extending its Human Resource Management Information System (HRMIS) project to all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs)...

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Cement importation from sub-region violates WTO rules

Cement manufacturers have called on government to check unfair trade practices in the country’s cement market. The Cement Manufacturers Association of Ghana (CMAG) has consistently...

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Parliament to demand tough measures from financial sector regulators

Parliament is expected to task the regulatory bodies in the financial sector – Bank of Ghana (BoG) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...

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Ghana Water owed over GH₵840m …58 percent by gov’t …plans to phase-out paper bills by Jan 2018

The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) may struggle to meet its objective of serving Ghanaians better if a debt of GH₵840m owed it by...

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Gov’t targets US$1b annually from handicrafts sales

The Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) are to promote locally-made handicrafts as a major export commodity on...

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Boost for ‘One District, One Factory’…As Chinese Company Sets Up factories in K’si and Sogakope

Kumasi and Sogakope will be the beneficiaries of sugar-processing and cylinder-manufacturing factories respectively to be set-up by Chinese company, Sky Team Ningbo. The sugar-processing factory...

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Stable food prices cut Sept inflation marginally to 12.2%

General stability in food prices has marginally cut the Consumer Price Index for September by a 0.1 percentage point from the 12.3 percent recorded...

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Modest Growth Recovery in Sub-Saharan Africa

Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is recovering at a modest pace, and is projected to pick up to 2.4% in 2017 from 1.3% in...

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UK keen on deepening partnership with Ghana to move beyond aid

The new UK High Commissioner to Ghana, Iain Walker, has expressed his country’s readiness to partner the government of Ghana in its quest to...

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Rebuilding our education system to power the digital economy (Part 3)

Strong macroeconomy key to sustaining capital market – Stanbic Executive

March producer price inflation eases to 24.4%

Embracing the unfamiliar: Echoes from Trump

Sincerity, friendship and equality: Written in an era of global economic turbulence

Driving economic growth through public sector financing

Ghana’s Resilience in the Face of U.S. Tariffs: A Call for Innovation and Unity

Domestic passenger throughput increases by 26%

New application to detect ghost names ready

Cement importation from sub-region violates WTO rules

Parliament to demand tough measures from financial sector regulators

Ghana Water owed over GH₵840m …58 percent by gov’t …plans to phase-out paper bills by Jan 2018

Gov’t targets US$1b annually from handicrafts sales

Boost for ‘One District, One Factory’…As Chinese Company Sets Up factories in K’si and Sogakope

Stable food prices cut Sept inflation marginally to 12.2%

Modest Growth Recovery in Sub-Saharan Africa

UK keen on deepening partnership with Ghana to move beyond aid