The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about or created a lot of uncertainty, which is making it difficult for businesses to predict the future in terms of their business operations. With a lot of lockdown restriction imposed by government(s) and closure of non-essential businesses, business executives are worried about their...
A Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Dzifa Abra Attah, has advised the youth to gain a firm control over the uncertainties surrounding the COVID 19 pandemic. While admitting that the pandemic presented a very challenging time for individuals, especially the youth, she said they had the ability to adjust to changes...
Parliament has approved the request from the Finance Minister for the suspension of the Fiscal Responsibility due to the dire effects of Covid-19 on the economy.
Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta in his mid-year budget presentation to Parliament requested that the Act which requires the country’s fiscal deficit to be kept...
Government’s policy to reduce the Communications Service Tax (CST) to 5 percent, provide free water for another three months, and pay the electricity bills of lifeline consumers and other fiscal populist strategies should be scrapped as the economy cannot raise enough revenue to support it, hence, increasing debt levels,...
The LPG Marketing Companies Association of Ghana (LPGMCs) will be supported with 50 percent of their buffer stock cylinders to help with piloting the Cylinder Recirculation Model (CRM), the NPA Chief Executive-National Petroleum Authority, Alhassan Tampuli, has said
The Authority has so far committed more than 40,000 branded and fit...
Key findings of Ghana PMI
New orders rise, but companies continue to lower activity
Employment scaled back again, but at a reduced pace
Purchase costs increase at the fastest rate since January
Business conditions in Ghana's private sector were broadly stable again in July, mirroring the picture seen in June,...
Banks in the country are ready to finance projects and programmes in the private and public sectors with potential to revive the economy irrespective of COVID-19 prevalence, panellists at the fifth edition of the B&FT-organised Ghana’s Most Respected CEOs Breakfast Series, have said.
The panel, made up of bankers, economists...
Country Managing Partner for Deloitte Ghana, Daniel Kwadwo Owusu, has said that with the end of COVID-19 still unknown, banks need to capitalise on new opportunities and innovations to take decisions which guarantee their survival amid and beyond the pandemic.
Speaking in a live conversation on the Ghana’s Most Respected...
Banks are still waiting on the Central bank to offer specific guidelines on the measures introduced - including reduction in interest rates and reserve requirements to combat impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic, since being without timelines and durations makes planning difficult.
Despite their introduction in March, 2020 - with banks...
