news

by country & category

Ghana

Ghana
Population: 23.7 mn.
GDP: 32.3 bn.
Debt: 4.2 bn.
Overview:

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.

Ghana Country Report

 


news from Ghana

Category: all

Found 115 articles.

Displaying 91-100 out of 115 results.

  • Vol 43 No 16
  •  9th August 2002

Too good

The government has raised eyebrows by contracting a $1 billion, low-interest loan from a group calling itself the International Finance Consortium (not to be confused with the International Finance Corporation, the private-sector lending arm of the World ...

  • Vol 43 No 15
  •  26th July 2002

I'm Sam, fly me

Many African airlines have boomed since Air Afrique collapsed, but not Ghana Airways

  • Vol 43 No 13
  •  28th June 2002

Of rice and rings

An interesting footnote to tales of corruption during the reign of President Jerry Rawlings is offered by the case of Juliet Cotton, convicted on 17 June by a federal jury in Atlanta, United States, of colluding with members of Rawlings's government to du...

  • Vol 43 No 8
  •  19th April 2002

Murder in Yendi

The beheading of a traditional ruler has a sour political background

  • Vol 43 No 7
  •  5th April 2002

Grabbing at growth

Political troubles mean the government has to do better with the economy

  • Vol 42 No 25
  •  21st December 2001

No shine on gold

Tough times and free markets are an uneasy match for Kufuor

  • Vol 42 No 25
  •  21st December 2001

Going private against the grain

Ghana's privatisation efforts have so far done little more than cut the public payroll. State assets were often sold at cut price to politically connected companies operating under few regulatory constraints. Public services stayed bad or got worse.

  • Vol 42 No 17
  •  31st August 2001

Reality checks

Party management, fighting recession and trying miscreants dominate the NPP agenda

  • Vol 42 No 11
  •  1st June 2001

Ole Kufuor!

The President scores on his first major international trip

  • Vol 42 No 9
  •  4th May 2001

A hundred days of Kufuor

The new government scores high on political tolerance but is struggling over how to tackle the economic mess it inherited

Displaying 91-100 out of 115 results.