He inherited almost nothing in the national coffers yet managed to raise revenue strategically to clean the messy situations he came to meet as the Finance Minister in 2017. 1. His predecessors took Ghana to IMF but Ken Ofori-Atta brought Ghana out of IMF. 2. His predecessor cancelled allowances for […]
African Development Bank(AfDB) Approves Sustainable Borrowing Policy to Tackle Post COVID-19 The COVID-19 pandemic has placed a further strain on governments finances. *The situation worsened due to unprecedented easing of fiscal and monetary policy adopted by Countries to cushion the socioeconomic impacts of the pandemic*. The African Development Bank(AfDB) estimates […]
Can Prof. Kwesi Botchwey and his economic students explain to Ghanaians why these programmes of World Bank and IMF FAILED to transform the Ghanaian economy under PNDC/NDC: 1. Structural Adjustment Programme(SAP) 2. Economic Recovery Programme(ERP) 3. Programme of Actions to Mitigate the Social Costs of Adjustment (PAMSCAD) 4. $1 billion […]
I would like Pierre Laporte to understand that, no government official is saying that COVID-19 is the Sole cause of Ghana’s economic challenges. The economic challenges of Ghana and Africa at large have been a longtime compounding issues largely due to unfair and bias economic policies by the Western World, […]
I am being careful about aspects of Ghanaian culture and training where the young ones are not to allow to question the elderly even when he or she is wrong. I am not to show disrespect but let me depart from the norms to ask what competencies did Ghana’s longest […]
The e-levy that the government of the day is trying to introduce to shore up the finances of the state has brought in its wake serious repercussions in our governance processes. Both Parliament and Ghanaians are divided over the implementation of the e-levy. The question is whether government communications have […]
Ghanaians would once again go to the polls to cast their ballots in the Local Government Elections to elect members to serve in the District Assemblies, next year, 2023. Without an Affirmative Action Law in place, these Elections will yet again, reinforce the existing low representation of women in Ghana’s […]
Dear Professor Raymond Atuguba, If coup wasn’t the solution to Mahama’s prolonged ‘Dumsor’ resulting in collapse of businesses etc., freezing of public sector employment, 15 nuisance taxes, high inflation rate and highest rate of depreciation and mismanagement of the Ghanaian economy under your NDC government and in your capacity as […]
Ghana’s first President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, and his political party Convention People’s Party (CPP) did well in pushing for the political independence of Ghana. However, 65 years after the political independence, the country is still struggling to achieve economic independence largely due to the 27 years of PNDC/NDC1/NDC2 and other […]
All You Need to Know about Mr. Isaac Manu (Former Regional Administrator) & The Full Story About The Financial Malfeasance “Chop Chop” At REPLB ( Takoradi Branch) Endorsed by Archbishop Akwesi Asare Bediako) The Bible says in 1 Timothy 3:3 that Not drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, and […]
