[ad_1] President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is chairing a three-day cabinet retreat to discuss vital issues affecting the country. Cabinet is scheduled to deliberate on matters including the country’s economy and the humanitarian crisis that has hit parts of the Lower Volta River areas after the spillage of the Akosombo and the Kpong Dams….
[ad_1] This past summer, the global trade regime finalized details for a revolution in African agriculture. Under a pending draft protocol on intellectual property rights, the trade bodies sponsoring the African Continental Free Trade Area seek to lock all 54 African nations into a proprietary and punitive model of food cultivation, one that aims to supplant…
[ad_1] An economist, Dr. Patrick Asuming, has said that it is too early for the country to say that the economy has turned the corner following the staff-level agreement reached with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on economic policies and reforms to conclude the first review of the country’s three-year program under the Extended Credit…
[ad_1] The US economy added 336,000 jobs in September, far more than many economists expected. A blowout US jobs report on Friday sent the dollar higher and cast a pall over stocks and bonds as the data increased fears that interest rates will stay elevated for longer and stirred concerns the post-pandemic economy is in…
[ad_1] US Federal Reserve holds rates steady while the European Central Bank signals a pause in monetary tightening policy, business and economy. Countries across the world have been hit by multiple crises that have sent prices soaring, including pandemic-era supply bottlenecks, the fallout of the war in Ukraine, and an energy crisis. Food, electricity, and…
[ad_1] Ghana’s economic problem is a moral one. It is a result of moral decadence sipping our economic potentials every day. And when our moral fundamentals are weak, the economy will expose us. The economy cannot be well if the economic agents (humans) are morally deficient. Indeed, Adam Smith foresaw that economic gain can corrupt…
[ad_1] The Minority caucus in Parliament has hit back at Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta for accusing the previous National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration of leaving behind a derailed International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme. In an article, Ofori-Atta said the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government in 2017 inherited a ‘derailed IMF programme and a highly impaired…
[ad_1] Absa Bank Ghana LTD and AngloGold Ashanti Ghana Obuasi Mine have entered a partnership to support SMEs in Obuasi and its environs as part of the efforts of the latter geared towards the transformation of the local economy where it operates. To this end, the two organizations have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)…
[ad_1] Former Finance Minister Kwabena Duffuor has dismissed claims by the current Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, that Ghana’s economy has turned the corner. Ofori-Atta made the claim during his presentation of the Mid-Year Budget Review in Parliament on July 31. He said that government plans and programmes had started yielding positive results and that the…
