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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 spending on infrastructure and productive sectors in a burden-sharing effort meant to pull the nation ...

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 restrictions similar to what happened between March 30 and April 20, last year carried the risk of collapsing t...

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 Ghana's 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 Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank from 1982 to 1992 under the PNDC regime and during the cons...

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 Economics, University of Ghana. The study, titled: “Industries Without Smokestacks (IWOSS) in Africa-...