Tag Archives: ECONOMY

Ghana and UK reach agreement to provide duty free economy

Ghana and the United Kingdom have reached a consensus on the main elements of a new trade agreement. This consensus was reached after Mr Alan Kyerematen, Ghana’s Minister of Trade & Industry and the Rt Hon Liz Truss MP, UK Secretary of State for International Trade met via video conference …

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Coronavirus pandemic rails Ghana’s economy into a recession

Ghana’s economy has, for the first time in nearly four decades, experienced a recession for consecutively two quarters of 2020. According to provisional GDP figures by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), the economy suffered a contraction as a result of the adverse impact of the coronavirus pandemic and its associated …

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Akuffo Addo  is crushing the Economy, kick him out – Richard Fred Kwashie

The Parliamentary Candidate for Fanteakwa south on the Ticket of NDC, Richard Fred  Kwashie Junior, said Rawlings was a saviour to mother Ghana. He said when the Economy was sliding into ditch; Rawlings came and rescues us from it. During that time our economy was in shambles which  we were unable …

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Deception, huge consumption spending killing Ghana’s economy – Terkper

Finance Minister, Seth Terkper, has said the current Finance Minister’s penchant to churn out questionable figures during budget presentations so his books will look good, is contributing to Ghana’s troubled economy. According to him, because Ken Ofori-Atta usually fails to provide the true figure of, for instance the budget deficit, the financial system …

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Gov’t to expand economy with iron, steel

The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh has noted that for a long time Ghana has been sitting on another mineral that has the potential to catapult the local economy but it hasn’t been given much attention. This, according to him, is iron, the bedrock for the Iron …

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Ghana’s economic growth set to rebound

Following the announcement earlier this week that Ghana’s economy contracted by 3.2 percent during the second quarter of 2020, senior officials of both the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Ghana have been quick to assure that this is just a temporary blip and that economic growth is expected …

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You can’t be speaking only big grammar, talk about the economy too- Gyampo to Naana Opoku-Agyemang

Political Science Lecturer at the University of Ghana Professor Ransford Gyampo has advised Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, running mate to former President John Mahama to talk about the economy when she gets the least opportunity to do so. According to him, she cannot speak without talking about the economy which …

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Available data proves NDC manages economy better than NPP – ASEPA

The Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA) says claims that the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) are better managers of the Ghanaian economy are inaccurate. According to ASEPA, available evidence backed by documents from Ghana International financial donors suggest that the opposition National Democratic Congress does better with …

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Coronavirus: Ghana named among countries with best response in the world

Ghana’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic continues to attract global acclaim as nations intensify their search for solutions to deal with the pandemic. The Washington Post, the renowned American publication, is the latest to applaud Ghana for the decisive way it has responded to the crisis since it broke out …

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Fact check: Govt shared different macroeconomic data with Ghanaians and IMF

On April 13, 2020, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued a statement approving the disbursement of US$1 billion credit facility to the government of Ghana to be used to address the impact the COVID-19 pandemic is having on the economy. The disbursement of the credit facility follows a …

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