The decision by Nana Akufo-Addo’s administration to finance its flagship free Senior High School policy with petroleum revenues has stirred controversy about the usefulness of the Ghana Heritage Fund (GHF),…
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The decision by Nana Akufo-Addo’s administration to finance its flagship free Senior High School policy with petroleum revenues has stirred controversy about the usefulness of the Ghana Heritage Fund (GHF),…
Notes from Recent IMF Staff Visit to Ghana Large fiscal slippages observed last year will require strong efforts of fiscal consolidation – aka more austerity. Bank of Ghana’s (BoG) monetary…
This is one of the best reports on Ghana’s post-HIPC debt crisis that I have read. It chronicles the nation’s history of high commodity dependence, debt cancellation under the Heavily…
From the World Bank’s Sustainable Energy for Blog Last week Zambia set a new price record for utility-scale solar-generated energy in Africa with the support of the World Bank Group’s (WBG)…
The Buhari government finally made a bold move today to abolish the moribund fixed (pegged) exchange rate regime it adopted last year for the Naira amidst plummeting oil prices in…
There is more bad news for the government of Ghana and the upstream oil and gas sector as oil production and revenues are set to plummet by 50%; thus putting…
Energy Ghana Magazine has published my article titled “Dumsor Ends But Remnants Remain” as the main cover story for the second issue of the magazine. The article looks at the…
“… Keynes was primarily a monetary economist who believed that governments should only turn to fiscal policy – raising public spending and cutting taxes – when all other options had been…
The Daily Graphic reports Ghana’s Minister of Petroleum, Mr Emmanuel Kofi-Armah Buah, giving an assurance that the drastic drop in the prices of crude oil on the world market will…
Want to know more about the oil and gas and mining industries? The Natural Resource Governance Institute the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), the World Bank and the United…
Between Ghana officially deciding to deregulate petroleum products with effect from 16 June 2015 to date, oil prices have more than halved falling from $65 per barrel to $36 per…
I was woken from my Facebook sabbatical over the weekend when Verdens Gang (VG), a Norwegian newspaper based in Oslo, broke a story on the murky power contract between the…
Want to ensure constant flow of power to support economic growth and development? Develop and maintain a legal and regulatory framework for the power sector encourages investor confidence from licensing…
NB: Charts culled from BBC article [see link below]. Governments across the world are looking to nuclear power to meet growing energy demand (and energy security) while reducing the CO2…