Ghana

Ghana

Population: 24.9 mn.
GDP: 40.1 bn.
Debt: 8.4 bn.
Overview:

Newly elected President John Dramani Mahama will move swiftly to appoint a new cabinet and speed up oil, gas and electric power plans. Hearings by the Supreme Court of the opposition's challenge to Mahama's election will rumble on but are unlikely to result in fresh elections. The governing National Democratic Congress will adopt a more conciliatory style under Mahama. Relations with Côte d'Ivoire should improve. 

 

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  • 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

  • Vol 52 No 10
  •  13th May 2011

All for the sake of the party

A battle royal for the presidential nomination of the National Democratic Congress will shape the country’s politics for the coming year and beyond

  • Vol 51 No 21
  •  22nd October 2010

Oil joy, debt worry

Former Finance Minister and chief statistician Joe Abbey has added his voice to those warning the Accra government to take action over spiralling debt liabilities ahead of the country’s first oil exports due by the end of this year. The government’s plan ...

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