2017

Government has compiled a register of licensed small-scale miners with a view of regularising their operations and ensuring compliance with mining and environmental requirements. Presenting the 2018 Budget and Economic Policy Statement…

Ghana’s debt to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ratio has declined from 73 per cent at the end of December 2016 to 68.3 per cent at September 2017. This is the first time since 2006 that the country has recorded a year-on-year reduction in…

Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, the Minister of Finance, has said as part of government’s strategy to promote industrialization, it would modify the incentives to cocoa manufacturers to increase processing of cocoa in Ghana. This, he said, would be…

Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, the Minister of Finance, has stated that in order to promote economic opportunities for women, special considerations would be given to women in Government’s procurement. Mr Ofori-Atta, said this when he delivered the…

Ghana’s Budget for the 2018 Fiscal Year, on the theme: “Putting Ghana Back to Work,” is set to translate the macroeconomic stability achieved in the last fiscal year in shared growth by energising the private sector and spurring…

The government of Ghana in its 2018 budget statement is considering the possibility of making Ghana the centre for financial services in West Africa. In the statement read by Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, in Parliament Wednesday…

Ghana will increase its power supply to Burkina Faso by 100 megawatts (MW) by the end of the year to help boost the energy needs of her neighbour. The work on the Bolgatanga-Ouagadougou transmission line is expected to be…

Mr Kwadwo Takyi Arhin, the Brong-Ahafo Regional Youth Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Wednesday dared government to prosecute public officers who served under the NDC government and deemed to have been…

Former President, Jerry John Rawlings, has called for the strengthening of social accountability structures both nationally and internationally, in order to achieve desired developmental goals. He said the current challenges being…

Global food security can only be achieved through a coordinated policy approach to hunger, poverty and climate change, world leaders and experts said during the latest round of climate talks in Bonn. Participants at a high-level event on…