The tables below provide a summary of the macroeconomic and financial data for Ghana and are provided by the Research Department of the Bank of Ghana and covers the period…
1. Emerging Challenges Monday 23 August 2015, was a terrible day for global markets as sell-offs hit global stocks across almost every sector driven by China’s stock market. As at close…
I reproduce below my latest policy paper published on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Title: Petroleum Product Pricing, Deregulation and Subsidies in Ghana: Perspectives on Energy Security Authors: Theophilus…
So, top of the list of the just released 2015 edition of the Fortune 500 companies are the usual suspects and industries: US based companies leading but China is steadily…
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What happened to the oft-touted mantra that improving economies on the African continent will provide a paradise for consumer goods salesmen? It was the expectation that Africa’s burgeoning middle class will provide the…
By Dr. Hene Aku Kwapong, The Songhai Group. I have no idea when the word “revert” as in “I will revert” ever became so pervasive in offices throughout Ghana and…
So, the Minister of Finance of Ghana was at Parliament yesterday to ask for an additional budget spending of GH¢866 million (US$270 million) to the 2015 budget. The original budget, presented in November…
Introduction The 2015 Global Competitiveness Report released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) has ranked 38 African economies out of 144 countries sampled. The Global Competitiveness Report assesses the competitiveness landscape…
So, I spent a greater part of my time this past week going through the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS) Round 6 main report and was curiously struck by some of the…
The one thing that often strikes me in my research on Ghana’s recent economic history is why despite the country being one of the new petroleum producing developing countries; it…
So, despite the announcement of the $940m bailout programme, the Cedi has been behaving cynically and purposelessly lamenting against the major international trading currencies – the dollar being the major…
Extract from the latest and damning IEA Report on the most important problems confronting the country. I dare say this is the ‘real’ state of the nation. Generally, the report…
On January 7, 2015, the Bank of Ghana (BoG) announced plans to raise GH₵25.42 ($8 billion) by first half 2015 through the issuance of Bills of various short and medium…
Post the Senchi consensus and ongoing IMF bailout talks, one would have thought that the Government will make firm commitments to reduce these two line items which continue to constrain…