Africa, a market of more than 1 billion people banks a collective Gross Domestic Product of $3.4 trillion a year. By doing business with anyone other than itself.
In 2016, the World Bank listed the top 5 products exported from Africa as gold in semi manufactured form ($9 billion); non...
Never mind what the hard skills of the apparent qualifications are. The real requirement for the successful applicant who bags the advertised role for Government Statistician, will be his/the ability to count, backwards.
Depending on who is guesstimating, Ghana has a population of 28 million people, give or take. English...
On the back of the successful ruling in September 2017 at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Seas to define Ghana's maritime boundaries with the Ivory Coast, more news.
Subject to Parliamentary approval, this is virtually assured (the government has a majority in the House, the Legislature generally...
The Doing Business (DB) survey is an annual report issued by the World Bank Group (WBG). It ranks economies across the world on the time, ease and procedures required for a small to middle size domestic business, in the most populous city, to complete critical transactions.
The first DB survey...
In 2017, the new management of the Ghana Investment Promotion Center (GIPC) set for itself the ambitious target of attracting a quantum of US$5 billion into Ghana comprising of Foreign Direct Investment, (FDI) domestic and Joint Venture (JV) inflows. The deepening of existing investment was also front and center.
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Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is fluent in 2 European languages; English and French. A useful skill, given that Ghana is surrounded by Francophone countries on 3 sides (La Cote d'Ivoire, Togo and Burkina Faso) and faced on its coastline, by the unforgiving Atlantic sea. We are also a nation,...
When Pablo Escobar held sway in Colombia as the eminence grise of the cocaine trade, he would apparently offer anyone who stood in his way. 'Silver or lead - take a bribe or take a bullet'. A compelling business proposition, to anyone, then or now, presented with these hypnotic...
Headline news announced by the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta in his budget statement, is that Ghana expects to earn some $670 million from exporting crude oil in 2018 from its 3 major producing fields. There may well be other tangible benefits.
The 2018 budget was themed 'Putting Ghana back...
When the Auditor General's (AG) statutory report on the spend by Ministries, Municipalities and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in 2016 is officially presented to Ghana's Parliament in February, 2018, it will come with the usual litany of unapproved payments, contracts backdated to cover work shoddily done, late and overpriced, good...
When Parliament resumes sitting in Ghana's teeming capital on Tuesday January 23rd, 2018, the 275 legislators, drawn from 10 regions - particularly because we are a deeply partisan nation, in the eye, again of an economic windfall - will address a number of issues that citizens and investors, domestic...