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Ghana

Population: 22.5 million
GNI: $11800 million
Debt: $5700 million
Overview: December's presidential and legislative elections will dominate the political and economic year. The governing New Patriotic Party will try to engineer a mini-boom before a hard fought contest with the National Democratic Congress.

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  • Vol 43 No 24
  • 06/12/2002

No cheques

President John Kufuor's last-minute rejection of the US$1 billion loan from the shadowy International Finance Consortium (not to be confused with the World Bank's International Finance Corporation) raises doubts about his economic management

  • Vol 43 No 22
  • 08/11/2002

Yes, Professor!

Two academics go head to head for the opposition leadership

  • Vol 43 No 17
  • 30/08/2002

Boom boom

It was a 'boom' speech, so called because it suggests the guns will boom again and return him to power. Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings has form: he led two coups d'état in 1979 (one successful) and another on 31 December 1981 which gave him power f...

  • Vol 43 No 16
  • 09/08/2002

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
  • 26/07/2002

I'm Sam, fly me

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

  • Vol 43 No 13
  • 28/06/2002

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
  • 19/04/2002

Murder in Yendi

The beheading of a traditional ruler has a sour political background

  • Vol 43 No 7
  • 05/04/2002

Grabbing at growth

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

  • Vol 42 No 25
  • 21/12/2001

No shine on gold

Tough times and free markets are an uneasy match for Kufuor

  • Vol 42 No 25
  • 21/12/2001

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.

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