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+ After a year of havoc, wreaked on the economy by COVID-19, the government has laid a blueprint of bold policies and programmes to stop the spread of the virus and contain its effects; revert the economy onto the path of transformational growth and ensure prosperity for all Ghanaians. In the country’s first budget since the virus struck in March last year, the government sought the permission of Parliament to raise more revenue from the public, grant tax rebates to businesses and increase sp...

Some experts have expressed optimism that economic activities in the country will rebound faster than initially anticipated as more people take the COVID-19 vaccine.

705 Some economic analysts have supported the government’s decision not to impose a second lockdown on Accra and other major cities as part of measures to contain the resurgence in the COVID-19 pandemic. They maintained that the cost of a lockdown on the public purse and economic activities, when weighed against the fragile nature of the economy, would make the imposition of restrictions injurious. They told the Daily Graphic in separate interviews yesterday that any imposition of restriction...

Rawlings Legacy: Economic Reforms and Impact on ordinary Ghanaian LISTEN JAN 26, 2021 Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings, a former Airforce Officer, who presided over the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) as Chairman and Head of State for 11 years, implemented many life-changing economic policies that defined Ghanas economic structures and aided its socio-economic development. It must be noted that most of those economic reforms were proposed and supervised by the International ...

705 A new study by a team of Ghanaian economists in collaboration with the Brookings Institution has identified agro-processing and tourism as two of the sectors that could be relied on to potentially address Ghana’s worrying unemployment numbers and enhance competitiveness and productivity of small and medium-sized firms. The team comprised Professor Ernest Aryeetey of Africa Research Universities Alliance (ARUA); Dr Priscilla Twumasi Baffour and Dr Ebo Turkson, both of the Department of Eco...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will open the 72nd Annual New Year School and Conference tomorrow, Tuesday, January 19th at the Great Hall of the University of Ghana, Legon, Accra. The School is on the theme, “Building Ghana in the Face of Global Health Crises”. It is being organised by the School of Continuing and Distance Education, College of Education, University of Ghana. The opening ceremony will be chaired by Mrs Mary Chinery-Hesse, Chance...

President Akufo-Addo will open the 72nd Annual New Year School and Conference today, Tuesday, January 19 at the Great Hall of the University of Ghana, Legon, Accra.

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705 PRESIDENT Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will start his final four-year tenure on January 7 with his task on the economy well cut out for him. He will be expected to lead the revival of an economy that has been pushed into its first recession in almost 40 years, prune down public spending to contain a large fiscal deficit and rein in borrowing to address a debt overhang that has breached various sustainability thresholds.   A tough ride for a President whose legitimacy is being questioned at ...

Graphic Online BY: Maxwell Akalaare Adombila 705 The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has plunged public finances into unsustainable levels and placed the economy on edge, prompting the need for “difficult decisions” to help correct the imbalances, the Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Dr Ernest Addison, has observed. While warning that debt and deficit numbers had breached their respective thresholds and now required tough measures to reverse, the governor said there was the need for a ...