South Africa Budget Leaves Investors Cold as Deficit Widens Angela Amuzu Oct 31, 2024 South Africa’s budget update showed public finances are under increasing pressure, heightening the need for the new…
China Deflation Risk Grows as Signs of Economic Weakness… Angela Amuzu Sep 9, 2024 China’s core inflation cooled to the weakest in more than three years, fueling calls for greater efforts to boost…
Kenya to borrow about $1.3 billion to compensate for tax… Angela Amuzu Jul 5, 2024 Kenya’s National Treasury will slash expenditure and take on more loans to compensate for revenue plans it was…
Ghana’s total public debt balloons to GHC 286.9 bn SpyDa Feb 1, 2021 Ghana’s total public debt has ballooned to GHC 286.9 billion or US$50.2billion for the first eleven months of 2020…
Over 1.5 million people evade Tax in Ghana – report SpyDa Dec 30, 2020 Out of about six million eligible Ghanaian taxpayers, over 1.5 million of them do not pay tax, making Ghana to…
Ghana’s rising debt, the good side SpyDa Nov 24, 2020 With the country’s total public debt ballooned to some GHC270 billion or 71 percent of Gross Domestic Product,…
Ghana’s cash deficit to widen above 10% of GDP at end 2020 SpyDa May 6, 2020 Fitch, one of the international rating agencies, says Ghana’s cash deficit is expected to widen above 10 percent of…
Ghana’s total debt stock reaches GHC214b SpyDa Feb 2, 2020 Ghana’s total debt stock has ballooned to GHC214 billion as at the end of November 2019. This represents 62.1…
Liquidity squeeze curtails Xmas consumerism SpyDa Dec 23, 2019 With just a couple of days to Christmas, consumer spending in Ghana’s major urban centres has remained subdued…
Hollard Ghana partners Vivo Energy to bring insurance closer… SpyDa Dec 15, 2019 Considering the low penetration of insurance services in Ghana, which is said to be just a little over one percent…
Don’t overly depend on natural resources for Dev’t – World… SpyDa Dec 14, 2019 The World Bank Group has cautioned the government against overly depending on the country’s natural resources for…