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Need for more taxes to fund NHIS – Dr Baah

Dr Yaw Baah, Secretary General of the Trades Union Congress, has advocated the need for the citizenry to pay higher taxes to fund the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to make it more functional. He recounted his experiences on…

Ghana’s domestic debt up 20%

Ghana’s economy is still struggling with headwinds as the country’s domestic debt goes up by 20.1 per cent, according to the Bank of Ghana. The country’s total public debt as at November 2017 was GH¢138.8 billion, which is 68.7 per cent…

Bank of Ghana maintains policy rate at 20%

Bank of Ghana kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 20 per cent on Monday, citing the need to keep inflation within its medium-term target of 8 per cent plus or minus two percentage points. Governor of the Bank, Dr Ernest Addison…