Ghana is set to commence the piloting of its electronic currency by September this year. This was disclosed by the First Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Maxwell Opoku-Afari. According to him, the introduction of the Central Bank’s Digital Currency (CBDC) is crucial as the pandemic has quickened the drive towards a cash-lite economy

Former Finance Minister Seth Terkper has urged government to use part of the Special Drawing Rights (SDR) money from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to pay off the zero-coupon sovereign bond it issued earlier on in the year, as waiting for it to mature will be more expensive to the state. The IMF last month

International financial markets have opened a window for African governments to diversify their funding sources from traditional multilateral institutions and foreign aid. For example, they can now borrow through issuing Eurobonds – these are international bonds issued by a country in a foreign currency, usually in US dollars and euros. South Africa was the first

With the wide-spread use of mobile phone devices, the introduction of Mobile Money (MOMO) in Ghana since 2009 has had quite a significant impact on the Ghanaian economy by reducing unemployment to some extent, developing the payment ecosystem, providing a means of savings for people without access to banks, timely completion of financial transactions, among others. More than a decade down

Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has said the quality of Ghana’s cocoa is unmatched making China no competition in terms of cocoa exports to the international market. “Ghana’s cocoa in terms of quality is matchless to none globally, hence, the international market’s decision to pay up to 25 percent premium on

The end result of the two world wars, coupled with a Great Depression was enormous physical and economic destruction in both Europe and the United States. These necessitated the drive to create a new international monetary system that would stabilize currency exchange rates without backing currencies entirely with gold; to reduce the frequency and severity of balance-of-payments deficits;

nnovation has brought us to an inflection point; the coming decade will be decisive When we gathered in Paris in 2015 to hammer out the historic climate deal, few of us dared hope that by 2021 more than 60 countries—representing over half of global emissions—would have committed to net zero emissions by mid-century. In addition, 4,500

The International Monetary Fund is responding to the policy challenges of a fast-changing global economy still reeling from the COVID-19 crisis: it is modernizing the way it provides its regular policy advice to member countries—a process known as surveillance. The regular health check of members’ economies, known as the Article IV consultations, will continue to cover

A former Deputy Minister of Finance Mona Quartey has asked the Ministry of Finance to release data on the Annual Budget Funding Amount (ABFA) to the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC). This comes after the ministry has, for the fourth time, failed to release data on the ABFA to PIAC to enable the body

Parliament, throughAct 1068 passed into existence the 1% Covid Health Recovery Levy on all goods and services consumed in the country. The 1% Covid Health Recovery Levy according to government is to help raise revenue to support Covid-19 related expenditure and also help improve the country’s current fiscal situation. The introduction and subsequent passage of the