AfDB can offer Ghana better rates than Eurobonds
Dr Akinwumi Adesin (AA), has taken office as the eighth President of the African Development Bank (AfDB). The 55-year-old Nigerian ...
Tag: Economy
It’s Time to Reform Africa’s Food System
For many decades, African agriculture has been a symbol of the continent’s poverty. In fact, though, agriculture is one of ...
The African Breadbasket
KIGALI – On the first World Food Day in 1945, people around the world celebrated the creation of the United ...
Fitch rates Ghana’s partially guaranteed notes ‘BB-‘
Fitch Ratings has assigned Ghana's USD1bn partially guaranteed notes a final 'BB-' rating. The bonds benefit from a partial credit ...
THE VIEW: Dr. Kofi Lindsay on Eurobond
THE VIEW WITH DR. LINDSAY Ghana Talks Business’ Paa Swanzy-Essuman sat down with economist and legal practitioner, Dr. Kofi Lindsay ...
What do minimum wages look like in sub-Saharan Africa?
Most countries in sub-Saharan Africa have adopted minimum wage laws. Although the sectors and the fractions of workers covered are ...
Why China’s model of capitalism is popular in Africa—and America’s isn’t
We live in a bipolar world. History has not quite ended even though it’s pretty much accepted that capitalism has ...
DUMSOR: A STUDY IN FAILED LEADERSHIP UNDER CRISIS
Rolling power cuts in Ghana, referred to tongue-in-cheek by Ghanaians as DUMSOR, a term which has found its way into ...
PYRRHIC DANCE AT THE GATES OF HADES: THE SENSE, AND NONSENSE, OF THE GHc vrs US$ TANGO
THIS ARTICLE WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON FACEBOOK ON 14TH JULY 2015 President John Mahama, his ‘men’, and the hordes of ...
Ghana’s Eurobond yields ‘unfortunate’ – IMF
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has described as unfortunate the 10.75 percent yields government accepted on the $1 billion Eurobond ...