Economy

Pensions are often presented as a technical subject involving contributions, investments, actuarial calculations and benefit payments. In reality, pension management is also deeply political.

Republic Investments says all its collective investment schemes outperformed their respective benchmarks in 2025, led by the Republic Equity Trust, which delivered an annual return of 84.2 percent as Ghana’s stock market staged a sharp recovery amid improving macroeconomic conditions and declining interest rates.

MobileMoney Fintech LTD (MoMo) has launched the Ride with MoMo campaign to encourage commercial drivers to adopt digital payments, as part of efforts to reduce cash transactions and deepen financial inclusion.

PwC Ghana has cautioned that the country’s strong macroeconomic performance in first half-2026 were driven largely by favourable commodity prices rather than a fundamental improvement in the economy’s underlying resilience.

Ghana’s economy has largely recovered and is expected to maintain its growth momentum, with strong gold exports and improving fiscal management shielding it from external shocks

Ghana has completed its US$3billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout programme after the Fund’s Executive Board approved the sixth and final review of the Extended Credit Facility (ECF), bringing to a close a three-year stabilisation programme launched following the country’s 2022 economic crisis.