Tag: debt sustainability

Between 2016 and 2023, China accounted for approximately 15% of Ghana’s total external loans, excluding multilateral agencies and Eurobonds.

The G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Johannesburg on February 20-21, 2025, marked a pivotal moment for South Africa’s global positioning.  Under the theme “Solidarity, Equality, Sustainability,” this inaugural G20 presidency ...

Kenya, East Africa's economic powerhouse, is grappling with a growing debt crisis exacerbated by recent deadly protests that forced the rejection of a crucial finance bill.  President William Ruto warned ...

Dr. Ernest Addison, the Governor of the Central Bank of Ghana, touching on the Bank of Ghana’s high frequency indicators during the MPC brief meeting disclosed that economic activity moderated ...

The Government of Ghana has announced the a further extension of the expiration date of its Domestic Debt Exchange, sending the date forward to 16th January, 2023, and has subsequently ...

Former Finance Minister, Seth Terkper, has pointed out that the economic woes of the country would have been intensified by the strike action by organized labor. The organized labor decided ...

MP for Ningo-Prampram Constituency, Sam Nartey George, has stated that, he has not done any mobile money transactions since April, when the e-levy policy was implemented. His reason for no ...

An Assistant Professor of Economics at the Niagara University, Dennis Nsafoah, has demonstrated in a recent analysis that it would be difficult to achieve debt sustainability (70% of GDP) by ...

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has urged the government to ensure efficiency in debt management to contain the heightened risk of debt sustainability currently facing the country. According to the ...

Dr. Sam Mensah, CEO of SEM Capital & Former Technical Adviser at the Ministry of Finance has revealed that the transaction cost of negotiating bilateral loans is very high.  According ...