Vol 60 No 23 | GHANA Hefty down payment for 2020 21st November 2019 President Akufo-Addo's government wants to engineer a pre-election boom without the usual economic meltdown afterwards With national elections a year away, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta tried to combine political bullishness and banker's caution when he read the 2020 budget statement in parliament on...
Vol 60 No 21 | GHANA Short circuits 25th October 2019 A US aid agency and President Akufo-Addo’s government are clashing over a plan to reform the state power company The government's cancellation of a contract with a business consortium to manage the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has put it at odds with the United States government...
Vol 60 No 19 | GHANA Dissident doctor 27th September 2019 When Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah announced on 20 September that three men had been arrested for coup plotting, some Ghanaians felt they had entered a time warp,...
Vol 60 No 12 | CÔTE D'IVOIREGHANA Cocoanomics 14th June 2019 Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana are threatening to suspend the sale of cocoa beans to the open market for the 2020/21 crop season in a bid to secure higher...
Vol 60 No 2 | GHANA Midterm blues and red lines 25th January 2019 President Akufo-Addo is pushing for bold development on industry and education – but few citizens feel any short-term benefit As he marks the halfway point for his government, President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo wants to push ahead with ambitious economic modernisation plans before campaigning for the 2020 elections...