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The sustainable growth of the agricultural sector is critical in driving economic transformation, deputy Minister for Food and Agriculture in charge of Crops, Yaw Frimpong Addo, has said. With Ghana’s population estimated to increase by…

The Ministry of Finance has justified its new proposed taxes, indicating, it will shore up revenue domestically and boost Ghana’s fiscal position following the shocks of Covid-19 and the Russian/Ukraine war. The Ministry has laid three…

The passage of outstanding revenue bills by Parliament remains critical to government programmes as well as to enable the state to complete four of the five agreed prior actions in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Staff Level…

Pension funds are setting their sights on investing in the real sector, according to the 2023 outlook survey by Axis Pension Trust, amid the economic woes which is driving investors to seek diversification away from government securities.…

Insurance companies may struggle to settle claims promptly in the coming days. This is as a result of their participation in the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme. Currently, significant portion of the industry’s investment incomes are…

The Producer Price Inflation, which measures the average change over time in the prices received by domestic producers to produce their goods and services, fell to 50.8% in February 2023, from 52.6% in January 2023. This is in line with…

Former President John Dramani Mahama has requested the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to clearly state its opposition to his promise to scrap the payment of ex-gratia.  In his keynote address at a programme organized on Wednesday,…

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta is today (23rd, March, 2023) leading government’s delegation to engage Chinese investors on Ghana’s debt restructuring programme. The engagements are expected to end on Friday 24th March, 2023. The…

Trade data obtained from the Oil Palm Development Association of Ghana (OPDAG) indicates that the country imported some US$1.17billion worth of oil palm between 2019 and 2021, a commodity which can be produced locally. The association’s…

The OPEC+ group is not expected to intervene in the oil market with changes to its production policy, likely keeping the current quotas until the end of 2023, despite the oil price plunge and the financial markets turmoil, three OPEC+…