Kenneth Nana Yaw Kuntunkununku Ofori-Atta

Economic Commission for AfricaAfter convening a virtual meeting of finance ministers chaired by Ghana's Ken Ofori Atta the ECA published a report arguing for a $100bn economic stimulus for Africa of which $44bn could come from a moratorium on debt service...

The deficit may yet increase should Akufo-Addo and Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta boost election-year spending over the projections in the 2020 budget...

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 13 November...

The founder of Databank in Accra Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta pledged to abolish all 'nuisance taxes' on taking office in January 2017 as well as to cut taxes and other constraints on 'entrepreneurship'...

On 18 October Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta cancelled the contract with Power Distribution Services (PDS) the consortium appointed to manage the ECG's operations...

Its Governing Board has 11 voting members: a Chairperson Yaa Ntiamoah-Baidu; six ministers (Ken Ofori-Atta Finance; John Peter Amewu Energy; Gloria Afua-Akuffo Attorney-General & Minister of Justice; Cynthia Morrison Gender Children and Social Protection; Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen Trade and Industry; and Ibrahim Mohammed Awal Business Development)...

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta insists that Ghana should exceed 7% GDP growth comfortably this year...

As Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta rose to his feet in Parliament on 15 November to deliver his 2019 budget statement he faced scepticism about his arithmetic from the opposition benches as well as analysts overseas...

Reforms for the extractive industries underwent a little-noticed review in Finance Minister  Ken Ofori-Atta budget...

Marking the news Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta known to his detractors as James Bond floated another US$2 billion of Eurobonds on 10 May...

Reformers including Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta would prefer to have five big locally owned operators by persuading them to merge...

But Ghana's Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta is yet to extricate the country from perilously high debt – still around 68% of GDP – inherited from the previous government...

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta says in the past year he has reduced the total debt-to-gross domestic product ratio from 72% to roughly 64%...

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has been trying to give practical backing to Akufo-Addo's recent critiques of foreign aid and adherence to market solutions to pull the country out of its inherited morass...

' Free markets meet workers' brigades Presenting his second budget to parliament on 15 November the Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta set a fiscal deficit target of 4...