Accra, Ghana//– The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) has announced a three-year, 66 million Swedish Kronor grant (approximately US $6 million) in support of Afrobarometer’s (https://www.Afrobarometer.org/) new 10-year strategy to extend its reach and illuminate the way forward for Africa’s development.
Category: Economy
Moody’s Downgrades Ghana to Further Junk Status, Warns Investors Could Lose in Debt Restructuring
Moody’s has downgraded the Government of Ghana’s long-term issuer ratings to Ca from Caa2 or further junk status and changed the outlook to stable.
World Banana Forum, Afruibana Discuss Banana Value Chain Issues
Paris, France//- The World Banana Forum (WBF) in collaboration with Afruibana, the first African Regional Commission brought together key players in the African banana industry to lay the foundation for a fruitful dialogue across the value chain on the issues of shared responsibility and duty of care.
Ghana: ‘2023 Budget Would Restore Macroeconomic Stability’
Accra, Ghana//-Ghana’s government is confident that the country’s 2023 would re-set the economy and restore macroeconomic stability.
Industrialisation Is The Best Import Substitution
Accra, Ghana//-According to Britannica (2022), industrialisation in history refers to the process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing.
Bright Simons: Ghana’s 2023 Budget: A Missed Opportunity
The leadup to Ghana’s budget presentation was filled with political drama and outsized investor expectations.
Ghana’s Benedicta Lasi Becomes First African Secretary General of Socialist International
Accra, Ghana//-Ghana’s Benedicta Lasi, a lawyer and notable member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has been elected Secretary General of the Socialist International (SI), to succeed Luis Ayala from Chile during a consequential vote at the ongoing 26th Congress of the Socialist International (2022).
Class FM Revives ‘Operation Feed Yourself’, Urges Ghanaians to Farm for Food
Accra, Ghana//-In 2020, food insecurity worsened in Ghana, according to the 2020 Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis (CFSVA).
Ghana: Privatising Saglemi Defeats the Idea of Affordable Housing; Decision Bad –Civil Engineer
Accra, Ghana//-Civil Engineer Abdulai Mahama has bemoaned government’s decision to sell off the abandoned Saglemi Housing project.
Report Finds That 37 African Countries Have industrialised in Last Decade
Abidjan, Ivory Coast//-Thirty-seven of 52 African countries have become more industrialised over the past eleven years, according to a new report from the African Development Bank, the African Union and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).