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Africa needs an alternative approach to restructuring government debt.
Africa is facing some impossibly difficult choices when it comes to financing its development. Countries need hundreds of billions of dollars each year to meet their climate, poverty, unemployment and inequality challenges. They cannot meet these needs only from their own resources, grants...
Road traffic accidents are a major health problem globally. Statistics from WHO in June 2022 indicates that approximately 1.3 million people die each year as a result of road traffic crashes. About 93% of the fatalities on the roads occur in low- and middle-income countries and at the same...
The fishing industry is critical to the economic growth of the country, and serves as livelihood for the fisher folk.
However, over the last decade, there has been dwindling of fish stock in the coastal regions of the country, and this has been largely attributed to climate change and illegal...
The Government has given indications of an impending debt restructuring that will involve Bond Swaps including zero coupon bonds for domestic bondholders with possible “haircut” for institutional investors which includes the banks. The Government has however assured individual Treasury Bill holders that their investments are safe and this is...
1.0 Introduction
This study is an attempt to analyze the extent to which Ghana’s domestic debt restructuring options such as debt reduction, debt rescheduling and debt reprofiling will impact on the financial sector as well as on the overall economy.
For the purpose of this paper, domestic debt restructuring (DDR) refers...
Global food insecurity is rising due to environmental, economic and geopolitical shocks
Resilience to extreme weather is being prioritised as climate change advances
Innovative food systems are helping countries meet sustainability goals
The revival of traditional agricultural techniques and foodstuffs is boosting security
Food security became a central priority...
Ghana is facing an economic relapse, a development which is threatening the long-term sustainability of the economy. A few years ago, Ghana’s economy was touted as one of the fastest growing in Africa, but now the once buoyant economy is in fiscal distress to the point of returning to...
On 17 November 2022, 15 central government bodies, including the National Development and Reform Commission and Ministry of Ecology and Environment issued a joint action plan that endeavours to eliminate heavy air pollution in 70 percent of China’s major cities by 2025. Ultimately, the plan will reduce the country’s annual proportion...
The world is confronting multiple, compounding crises, from COVID-19, energy, inflation, debt, and climate shocks to unaffordable living costs and political instability. The need for ambitious action cannot be greater. However, the return of failed policies such as austerity, now called “fiscal restraint” or “fiscal consolidation,” and a lack...