The World Bank has maintained a modest 1.4% growth rate for Ghana this year, its June 2021 Global Economic Prospects Report has revealed. In January 2021, the World Bank projected the same growth rate, citing slow growth in most sub-sectors of services and industry. This is despite expected resilience in …
Read More »Lending Rates Begin To Fall
Lending rates demanded by commercial banks in Ghana will begin to be cut this week in response to the Bank of Ghana’s announcement, a week ago, of a 100 basis points cut in its key Monetary Policy Rate, bringing it down to 13.5 percent in a move that many had …
Read More »Collapsed Banks Still Keeping 93% Of Assets
GOVERNMENT HAS been able to recoup only GH¢1.7 billionout of a total of GH¢25 billion assets belonging to banks which collapsed in 2017 under the financial sector clean-up exercise embarked upon by the Central Bank. Dr. Ernest Addison, Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), who disclosed this to journalists …
Read More »Here Is How The Cedi Is Performing Against Foreign Currencies As Of May 28
• The cedi traded against the dollar at a mid-rate of 5.7360 • It maintained its trade value against the pounds Sterling of 8.1391 mid-rate • Euro dropped down at a mid-rate of 6.9969 On the interbank board today, May 28, 2021, the Ghana Cedi is trading against the dollar …
Read More »Ghana’s Debt Stock Hits GHS304.6bn
Latest figures from the Bank of Ghana’s Summary of Economic and Financial Data, show that Ghana’s debt stock rose by GHS13 billion to hit GHS304.6 billion as of March 2021, representing 70.2% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The additional GHS13 billion debt came about between December 2020 and March 2021. …
Read More »Ghana’s Economy Is On A Rebound – Addison
The Ghanaian economy is on a rebound with a sustained momentum in pick-up in economic activity, Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) Dr Ernest Addison, has said. He explained that the Bank’s updated Composite Index of Economic Activity (CIEA) recorded an annual growth of 13.9 percent in January 2021, …
Read More »Police Must Arrest Those Selling Pure Water At 0.30p – GYFD Says
Ghana Youth For Development (GYFD) has urged the Ghana Police Service to arrest people who are selling pure water at 0.30 pesewas. Read Their Full Statement Below Press Release 22ND MARCH, 2021 Don’t Buy 30 pesewas Pure Water – GYFD to Ghanaians Is it not enough …
Read More »BoG Followed Due Process And law In Revoking The Licence Of Unicredit – Court
In spite of a court ruling that the Bank of Ghana (BoG) followed due process in revoking the licence of Unicredit the Founder of collapsed uniBank Ghana Limited, Dr Kwabena Duffuor has petitioned Parliament to investigate circumstances that led to the collapse of his bank. HODA Holdings Limited, (HODA) the …
Read More »Ghana Better-Positioned To Build A More Resilient Economy – Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu
Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Leader of Government Business in Parliament Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has assured Ghanaians that there is no cause for alarm in the face of the coronavirus crisis, which hit the country in March, 2020. Delivering the 2021 budget statement and economic policy of …
Read More »Budget: Ghana’s Total Debt Stands At GHS291.6billion
The 2021 budget statement presented to parliament by leader of government business Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has pegged Ghana’s fiscal deficit at 13.7 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This deficit, according to the budget, includes the cost of the financial sector cleanup up. “The fiscal deficit including the …
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