Tag: Economic policy

The IMANI Center for Policy and Education has thrown its weight behind President John Mahama’s plan to scrap the $1 million minimum capital requirement for foreign trading companies, arguing that ...

Franklin Cudjoe, President of IMANI Africa, has called on the Bank of Ghana to remain strictly independent in the face of mounting economic challenges and public misinterpretation of policy effects.  ...

Hon. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, MP for Ofoase Ayirebi and a member of Parliament’s Economy and Development Committee, has reaffirmed the significant contribution of the Gold for Oil initiative to Ghana’s ...

In the ongoing national conversation about government spending, Hon. Felix Ofosu Kwakye, Minister of State in Charge of Government Communication, has pushed back against claims that recent economic gains are ...

At a time when economic governance is increasingly under the microscope, Ghana’s Parliament is being called upon to intensify its oversight role to ensure better transparency, accountability, and fiscal responsibility.  ...

Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare, a legal scholar, has raised fundamental questions about the necessity and efficacy of the newly established Fiscal Council, birthed under the Public Financial Management (PFM) Amendment ...

In a nation wrestling with judicial retirement benefits that are increasingly out of step with its economic reality, legal scholar Prof. Stephen Kwaku Asare has raised pointed questions about the ...

The economic relationship between the United States and Ghana is facing fresh scrutiny following a controversial 10% tariff imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration.  Dr. Theo Acheampong, an economist ...

President John Dramani Mahama has signed into law eight bills passed by Parliament, marking a significant shift in Ghana’s fiscal policy and fulfilling a major campaign promise by the National ...

Hon. Abena Osei-Asare, Member of Parliament for Atiwa East and former Minister of State at the Ministry of Finance, has raised critical concerns about the 2025 budget presented by the ...