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Like gold and cocoa. so what's gone wrong? i got the view from bright simons — a ghanaian entrepreneur and business analyst. it all starts with how ghana became a rising star and that was sometime in 2006. it got one of the biggest debt relief packages ever, the second largest in africa. $4.5 billion of debt was wiped out, and that meant it could all of a sudden borrow from international capital markets. it also discovered oil in 2007. combining those revenues meant investment in large infrastructure projects which then transform the fortunes of the country, so that is how ghana became a ris...

But the Director of Research at the Institute of Economic Affairs, Dr. John Kwakye, thinks others, saying, his checks with IMF Board Meeting Schedule indicate that Ghana is not on the agenda of the IMF Board for this week and even next week.

Rising rates are hurting some of its brightest economic stars | Middle East & Africa

The Parliament of Ghana is reviewing an on-lending agreement between the government of Ghana and a new Ghanaian state-owned development bank, DBG.

Ajay Banga, in his former senior executive roles at Mastercard, waged a decade-long "war on cash." Under his tenure, the company did more than just about any other to demonise the role of physical money around the world.