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Steve H. Hanke, a professor of Applied Economics, Johns Hopkins University, has described as “bogus” Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s announcement of a new policy of buying oil products with gold rather than U.S. dollars. According to him, Ghana’s vice president is grasping for straws with this new gold-for-oil plan. The …

Steve H. Hanke a professor of Applied Economics at the Johns Hopkins University, has reiterated his point that the managers of the Ghanaian economy need to establish a currency board in order to save the fallen cedi against the dollar. The Professor, who is based in the US, for some …

Oliver Mawuse Barker-Vormawor, one of the conveners of #FixTheCountry Movement, has chastised Prof Steve Hanke, a Professor of Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins University, for claiming that the only option to fix Ghana’s economic mess is for the central bank to install a currency board. Describing the 79-year-old Professor as …

Professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University-USA, Steve Hanke, has suggested that the country’s economic outlook does not look favourable. The academic in a Twitter post on August 6 pointed to the depreciating Cedi as the reason for his claim. In his view, the country needs a currency board …

Steve Hanke, a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University in the United States, has for some time now been monitoring Ghana’s economic growth and putting a spotlight on it. In his latest #EconWatch diaries on his verified Twitter timeline, the academic stated that, since 2021, Ghana has lost …

Renowned Johns Hopkins University economist, Professor Steve Hanke, has again questioned the Akufo-Addo-led administration’s intention to enter an economic programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In a post shared on Twitter, he blamed government for imposing more hardships on Ghanaians by introducing more taxes in a move to salvage the economy. …