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…
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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…
Like I said yesterday on another wall, most of our political parties write up their manifestos only to come into power to be met with medium term development frameworks (e.g….
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Young entrepreneurs from Africa and across the world can learn a lot from Bright Simons, 33, and his MPedigree Network. Extracts From the Bloomberg Feature Article “A Ghanaian entrepreneur thinks…
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…
Theo Acheampong speaks to the BBC Africa Business Report on the Ghana-Ivory Coast maritime border dispute and the impact of petroleum activities on Ghana’s economy. Ghana told to hit brakes…
Just read Craig Murray’s article titled “IMF and USA set to ruin Ghana” and though he ― as a former Deputy British High Commissioner to Ghana and an insider― makes some interesting…
For those complaining about recent hikes in petroleum prices, it is important to note that the main driver of these increments is the exchange rate as can be seen in…
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…
Poor sanitation costs Ghana US$290 million each year according to a desk study carried out by the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP). This sum is the equivalent of US$12 per…
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…