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Ghana
Population: 23.7 mn.
GDP: 32.3 bn.
Debt: 4.2 bn.
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Cost of living issues and oil revenue management will dominate December's general election pitting President John Atta Mills of the NDC against the NPP's Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. The opposition is favoured to win narrowly.

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  • Vol 53 No 3
  •  3rd February 2012

It's Woyome time

A scandal is growing over the government’s decision in 2010 to pay 58 million cedis (US$34.45 mn.) in compensation on a ‘financial engineering’ contract to Alfred Agbesi Woyome. The controversy is dragging more and more officials into its vortex. What...

  • Vol 53 No 2
  •  20th January 2012

The Accra boosters

Foreign praise-singers try to justify aid but skate over the difficult choices facing President Mills before this year’s elections

  • Vol 53 No 1
  •  6th January 2012

Great expectations

The 2012 elections may delay, but will not stop, the resource-driven progress towards prosperity

  • Vol 53 No 1
  •  6th January 2012

Getting the vote right

The straight-talking director of Ghana’s Electoral Commission, Kwadwo Afari-Djan, and his team have organised five multiparty elections since 1992, each one more credible than the last. The 2012 presidential and parliamentary elections could be the toughe...

  • Vol 52 No 24
  •  2nd December 2011

A pipeline of votes

Delays and disputes over a gas-fired industrial project could damage President John Atta Mills ahead of next year’s elections

  • Vol 52 No 24
  •  2nd December 2011

The IMF and the Chinese loan puzzle

The view of Ghana as an economic success, one held by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, comes with a price tag. Last year, the first recalculation of national income for 20 years increased the reported gross domestic product by US$500 to...

  • Vol 52 No 19
  •  23rd September 2011

Are the politicians high?

Gossip in Accra produced entertaining US diplomatic cables but raises serious questions about rising political tensions

  • Vol 52 No 15
  •  22nd July 2011

A Mills bomb for Rawlings

Having secured the presidential nomination for the incumbent, the top NDC officials cannot afford to ignore his challenger

  • Vol 52 No 14
  •  8th July 2011

Oil and reality

The most obvious beneficiaries of Ghana’s oil boom so far have been the shareholders of the international companies operating there. Both Ireland’s Tullow Oil, listed on the London Stock Exchange, and the United States’ Kosmos Energy, listed in New York, ...

  • Vol 52 No 13
  •  24th June 2011

Parallel lines

As the political stars hit the campaign trail a year early, they start a national debate about the economy

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