The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has assured that the policies being implemented by Government, in the wake of the difficulties occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic, will help the economy rebound faster than anticipated. Acknowledging the difficult … Read more →
Ghana’s economy grew 6.7 per cent year-on-year in the first three months of 2019 compared to 5.4 per cent in the same period last year, the Ghana Statistical Service said on Wednesday. The quarter-on-quarter seasonally adjusted growth rate was 1.6 … Read more →
THE World Bank has urged the Government to strengthen efforts at diversifying the country’s economy and broaden the tax base to ensure that larger numbers of tax payers contribute to the domestic revenue mobilisation. The World Bank Group believes that … Read more →
– On the back of increases in oil and gas production, agric – World Bank The World Bank has projected Ghana’s economy to grow by 7.6% this year. This is a slightly higher than government’s own 7.2% growth projection contained … Read more →
The economy grew by 5.4 per cent year-on-year in the second quarter of 2018, compared to 11. 1 per cent recorded for the second quarter of 2017, provisional data from the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has indicated. The value of … Read more →
President Akufo-Addo has said the government is reviving the economy, despite the difficult circumstances it inherited from the John Mahama administration. According to President Akufo-Addo, the first order of the day for his administration was to get the fundamentals of … Read more →
Ghana’s economy is now valued at GH¢256.6 billion after the rebasing of gross domestic product (GDP) based on measurements from 2013 instead of 2006. This is the second time in less than 10 years that the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) … Read more →
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and private sector players have lauded government’s efforts in steering the affairs of the Ghanaian economy from 2017 till now. They however urged government to sustain the gains made. Fiscal deficit dropped from 9.0 percent … Read more →
President John Dramani Mahama has opened up on the challenges facing the Ghanaian economy – a development that has compelled the country to sign up to a $940 million three-year credit facility with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In an … Read more →