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We’re not competing in a free market. We never were.
2+ hour, 32+ min ago (1494+ words) We like to believe that markets run the world. We like to believe that capital flows according to logic. That innovation determines winners. That business success is simply the outcome of better ideas executed with discipline and in a competitive…...
International relations and diplomacy as catalysts for economic renaissance
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (617+ words) By Emmanuel Bewaji ELEMO, Doctoral Scholar, RUCST In an era defined by geopolitical turbulence, shifting alliances, supply chain disruptions, and economic nationalism, the relevance of effective international relations and diplomacy has never been more pronounced. For emerging economies such as…...
International geopolitics and its implications on our downstream oil sector – brace or embrace?
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (795+ words) By Sheldon K. AMBAAH The global oil market has never been insulated from geopolitics. From the oil shocks of the 1970s to the Gulf Wars, from sanctions regimes to shipping route disruptions, the downstream oil sector has repeatedly found itself at the…...
Global crises pose medium-term inflation risks - PwC
1+ week, 3+ day ago (535+ words) By Kingsley Webora TANKEH PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Ghana has warned that emerging global crises pose risks to inflation in the medium-term as supplyside shocks occasioned by the crises are expected to feed into inflation during coming months. According to PwC Ghana's…...
Q4 2025 growth accelerates to 5.8%, full-year expansion hits 6% ahead of MPC decision
1+ week, 3+ day ago (709+ words) The economy recorded a year-on-year growth of 5.8 percent in fourth quarter-2025, pushing full-year expansion to 6 percent according to provisional data released by Ghana Statistical Service (GSS). The latest outturn reflects an improvement from the 4 percent growth recorded in the same…...
How the decline of GRR to 11.71% is reshaping fiscal space, private sector investment and unlocking the big push
1+ week, 4+ day ago (50+ words) By Selassie Isaac Israel "Significance of the Decline to 11.71% The drop of the GRR to 11.71% is of profound macroeconomic significance for several reasons: The current level of the GRR has multifaceted implications for the Ghanaian economy: Beneficiaries of the Drop…...
MPC weighs policy path as oil surge tests disinflation gains
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1397+ words) " amid business community clamour for steeper rate cut By Joshua Worlasi AMLANU and Kingsley Webora TANKEH The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is meeting under improving domestic economic conditions but rising global energy prices that threaten to test the country's steady…...
Financial Security (FinSec) Series with Dr Philip Takyi: Re-anchoring monetary authority in fragmented political economies
1+ week, 5+ day ago (398+ words) The contemporary challenge, therefore, is not a binary choice between autonomy and accountability, but the construction of governance frameworks that reconcile independence with legitimacy in politically and socially complex environments. In African economies, legal independence is often formally articulated in…...
Editorial: Large credit unions must come under BoG supervision
1+ week, 5+ day ago (327+ words) A rural banking expert has lauded the Bank of Ghana's (BoG) decision to bring large credit unions under its supervision. Under microfinance sector reforms, credit unions with assets of GH60million and above will " for the first time " be licenced and subject…...
SIM Group CEO inducted into Corporate Ghana Hall of Fame
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (401+ words) The Chief Executive Officer of SIM Group of Companies Ltd, Mr. Kofi Amoako-Attah, has been honored and officially inducted into the Corporate Ghana Hall of Fame at the 2025 Corporate Hall of Fame Awards ceremony held in Accra. The prestigious platform…...