The Deputy Minister for Finance, Mr Thomas Nyarko Ampem, has cautioned State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) to improve their operational efficiency or face restructuring, privatisation, or dissolution under the government’s renewed drive …
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Stanbic Bank launches ‘Obaa Sima’ to tackle financing gap for Ghanaian women
Stanbic Bank Ghana has launched a new women-focused banking proposition, Obaa Sima, aimed at expanding access to finance and business support for women, particularly those operating within the informal sector. …
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The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has, for the first time, released comprehensive national data on mobile and open‑space businesses as part of Phase I of the 2024 Integrated Business Establishment …
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The Ghana cedi has depreciated by approximately 3.9 percent against the US dollar in the interbank market in the first three months of the year. This is higher than the …
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The Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr Johnson Pandit Asiama, has assured that Ghana will be able to avoid excessive volatility of the cedi despite rising global uncertainties linked …
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The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Ghana has reduced the Monetary Policy Rate by 150 basis points to 14 per cent, citing continued improvements in domestic macroeconomic …
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The Producer Price Index and Inflation (PPI), which measures the average change over time in prices received by domestic producers for their goods and services, recorded a year-on-year increase of …
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Finance Minister confirms start of public sector recruitments despite high wage bill
Finance Minister Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson has announced that the administration has “commenced processes for the recruitment of staff into the public service.” This is despite revealing that the government …
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IC Research, one of the leading market research firm, is forecasting a modest uptick in inflation for March 2026 as supply-chain disruptions and other cost pressures re-emerge. It is forecasting …
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Ghana’s economy grew by 5.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2025, strengthening from 4.0 percent recorded in the same period of 2024, according to provisional Gross Domestic Product (GDP) …

