PharmaAfrica has announced that the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) will be supporting 2nd Africa Pharmaceutical Summit (APS) and Pharmatech Africa (PTA) Exhibition as headline partner. The summit is slated from the 10 to 12th of September, 2014, at the Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra, Ghana. It will bring stakeholders in the pharmaceutical industry […]
Category: Economy
GCAP To Boost Agri-Business Investment
By Mashood .A Kunateh in Accra, Ghana Managers of the Ghana Commercial Agricultural Project (GCAP) are confident that the multimillion dollar World Bank and USAID funded project would help boost private sector investments in the country’s agric sector. According to them, the GCAP is working to sanitise and magnetise the agribusiness investment in Ghana. The […]
GSK Eyes Ghana In £100m Expansion Plan
The Chief Executive Officer of GSK, Sir Andrew Witty who reveled this at 5th EU-Africa Business Forum in Brussels, capital of Belgium, noted that the selected sites would be announced in due course, and subject to governments’ agreement. Over the next five years, GSK will look to partner with a number of African countries to […]
Businesses Less Optimic About Achieving Targets
The latest surveys conducted by the Bank of Ghana (BoG) have revealed that businesses in the country are less optimistic about achieving their targets for capital outlay, employment, sales, and revenue due to increases in utility and fuel price hikes. This generally softening business and consumer sentiments in the West African second largest economy. On […]
India Investments In Ghana Go UP
Indian investments in Ghana have reached $800 million, spanning diverse sectors of the Ghanaian economy, including manufacturing, mining, housing, construction and education. This follows the up in the volume of bilateral trade between Ghana and India, which for the first time hit $1.2 billion. The Indian High Commissioner to Ghana, Jeeva Sagar has disclosed this […]
Gov Introduces Financial Stimulus Package For Local Firms
By Mashood A Kunateh in Accra, Ghana The Government of Ghana, with support from Export Development and Agricultural Investment Fund (EDAIF) has reviewed the existing legislation to provide financial stimulus to exports, pharmaceuticals, poultry, textiles and garments, SMEs and agro-processing firms in the country next year. Although the amount of the financial stimulus package is […]






