The NPP MP for Sekondi Constituency in the Western Region, Andrew Kofi Egyapa Mercer, has said that the NDC Minority in Parliament is rehashing old and debunked allegations against the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta.
Mr Mercer said the allegations of misreporting were first raised in May 2020, and rejected...
A deliberate plan to partner the private sector to revive struggling and abandoned factories will breathe new life into the country's recovery from the current economic crisis, an Economics Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Dr. Nkechi S. Owoo, has advocated.
Domestic manufacturers, such as Pwalugu Tomato Factory, Komenda Sugar...
Title: Critical Economic Issues for National Development, 2nd Edition
Author: Dr. Emmanuel Acquah-Sam
ISBN: 978-9988-1-3736-6
Copy Right: 2022
Pages: 436 pages
Printer: Samico Mega Printing Press
Critical Economic Issues for National Development, 2nd Edition, will help the readers to critically and logically analyse and present economic issues in ways...
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), Yofi Grant, has urged small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to take advantage of the many opportunities in the green and circular economy.
According to Mr. Grant, the world currently is focusing on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) since they is...
This article discusses Ghana’s Double Tax Agreements (DTA) with other countries, and examines issues of treaty shopping and low withholding tax rates in these DTAs, necessitating the need for review and renegotiation of some of the existing DTAs.
Ghana has signed DTAs with about eighteen sovereign states; however, only twelve...
Climate damage reparations on COP27 agenda
Some European countries including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ireland and Scotland stepped up to offer ‘loss and damage’ funding for African nations impacted by climate change. While the amounts offered so far are insignificant compared to the billions needed for vulnerable populations to tackle...
Wealthy polluter nations must pay up for climate-induced losses and damages suffered by most vulnerable and poor nations, Country Director of ActionAid Ghana John Nkaw has proposed.
Mr. Nkaw, who was addressing participants at the National Climate Change Seminar in Accra, said millions of farmers in vulnerable countries, including Ghana,...
The annual consumer inflation rate increased to a 17th straight month high in October 2022, hitting 40.4 percent - the highest reading since July of 2001.
This is up by 3.2 percentage points from 37.2 percent in the prior month and nearly 4.04x beyond the Bank of Ghana's upper band...
… Regional Course on Macroeconomic Diagnostics (MDS) starts
Policymakers need to build capacity and sharpen their skills to design policies that will enable countries to restore price stability and design fiscal plans to alleviate the cost-of-living pressures, Director General of West African Institute for Financial and Economic Management (WAIFEM),...
with inflation, FX, policy rate set to cage economy
Amid the central bank's continued aggressive policy stance, a free-falling cedi and an eclectic collection of external factors, the research arm of Databank has projected an end-of-year overall Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate of between 3.5 and 4.5...