Senior Economist at Databank Research, Courage Martey is hopeful the cedi will continue to see some stability against the dollar compared to other currencies across the continent due to the bi-weekly FX forward auction being undertaken by the Bank of Ghana (BoG).
The bi-weekly FX forward auction, which was introduced...
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) will soon outline some incentives that would accompany the filing of tax returns online through the Integrated Tax Application Preparation System (ITAPS) in a move to encourage compliance.
Acting Commissioner-General of the GRA, Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah, told the B&FT in an interview that a channel migration...
Following a meeting convened by the Pan-African Private Sector Trade and Investment Committee (PAFTRAC) and hosted by the Afreximbank, a communiqué addressed to members of the WTO and the eight candidates who have been shortlisted as the institution's next Director-General has been released - calling for a wide range...
The nation’s industrialisation agenda is the main pull-factor for the consideration of nuclear energy to be added to the energy mix, Board Chairman of Nuclear Power Ghana (NPG), Fred Oware has said - noting that even though there are many uses of nuclear energy, the country is considering the move as...
The sod has been cut for work to begin on a solid-waste treatment facility for the people of Bono Region.
The project - a collaboration between the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources (MSWR), Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL) and its private-sector partners - is aimed at improving sanitation in the...
Ghana is making significant progress toward the sustainable management of cocoa forest landscapes, boosting livelihoods and addressing the impacts of climate change
Ghana has received an advance payment of US$1.3million out of a US$50million agreement with the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility for results-based payments for reducing emissions from...
Former Finance Minister, Seth Terkper has maintained that the Mahama administration did not directly borrow from the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to finance the 2016 Budget.
Mr. Terkper said the government in 2016 couldn’t have gone for BoG financing to support its expenditure since there was an IMF conditionality that...
A large number of small and medium-sized businesses remain informal not by choice but because their efforts to transition into the formal sector are frustrated by delays on the part of permits, licences and certificates issuing agencies.
These delays, in turn, to lead to corruption and high cost of formalisation,...
One of the striking cultural elements of many a society is their building architecture; a personality carved deliberately with indigenous material, colour, motifs and other symbolic accents.
Until the influence of western design, indigenous design leveraged the immediate natural environment to provide quality indoor air, cooling and other functional spaces....
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Vodafone Ghana, Patricia Obo-Nai, has joined a host of African leaders and the international community to share her thoughts on Africa’s economic recovery after COVID-19 at this year’s Bruegel Annual Meeting.
Bringing the private sector perspective on the panel, Patricia Obo-Nai disclosed that in March, when...