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Finance Lecturer, Professor Lord Mensah, has rejected suggestions  that  exempting Pension Funds from the Debt Exchange Programme will come at a great cost to government in its quest to reduce  Ghana’s debt substantially by 2028. …

Rating agency, Fitch, has given an indication of a further downgrade of Ghana’s credit rating to very deeper junk status. This is coming after it downgraded Ghana’s Long-Term Foreign-Currency (LTFC) Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to ‘C’ on…

Ratings agency, Fitch, has pointed out that Ghanaian banks could face significant pressure on their capitalisation due to the restructuring of local-currency (LC) sovereign debt. According to the UK-based rating agency, it believes banks…

The Minister for Public Enterprises, Joseph Cudjoe has revealed government plans to put 17 state-owned enterprises on divestiture to save the state from spending on them. According to him, these are defunct entities that the country…

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has expressed optimism that government will achieve a debt-to-Gross Domestic Product ratio of 55% by 2028 despite the exemption of pension funds from the debt exchange programme. According to him,…

Banks held the largest holders of government bonds and notes of about ¢50.5 billion as of the end of September 2021. According to the monthly bulletin by the Central Securities Depository, the total bonds and domestic notes issued by the…

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has expressed optimism that government will achieve a debt-to-Gross Domestic Product ratio of 55% by 2028 despite the exemption of pension funds from the debt exchange programme. According to him,…

A public-private partnership project to scale up disaster risk finance and insurance solutions as well as build financial resilience has been launched. Dubbed “The Insurance and Risk Finance Facility (IRFF),” it seeks to develop a…

Zimbabwe has imposed a ban on the export of unprocessed lithium, according to a government notice seen by Reuters on Tuesday, in a bid to stop artisanal miners who the government says are digging up and taking the mineral across borders.…

Stakeholders in the aquaculture subsector have called on the Fisheries Commission (FC) and the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) to develop a Residue Monitoring Plan as part of measures to guarantee safe and high quality fish for consumers in…