Ghana has lost its status as a Middle-Income Country (MIC). This follows the reclassification of the country as a Low-Income Country (LIC) by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its April 2021 Fiscal Monitor Report. According to the IMF, it no longer recognises Ghana as a MIC despite achieving the status in 2010. The downgrade

Former Finance Minister, Seth Terkper has once again bemoaned the country’s debt collection methods as well as its revenue performance in recent years. This, according to him, can partly be blamed on non-response to the rebasing of the country’s GDP. He made these assertions in a post-budget dialogue organized by Citi TV and the University

For a fourth consecutive month, consumer inflation in the month of September 2021 rose to 10.6 percent – exceeding the central bank’s medium-term target of 8-10 percent. The increase, although anticipated by the market, is the highest in the last 14-months of COVID-19 since August 2020, when Ghanathe indicator stood at 11.5 percent. Data released

Director of Research for the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), Dr John Kwakye, has made calls for transparency on the country’s financial and energy sector debts as a component of the country’s overall public debt stock. The call by the Institute, Dr Kwakye explains, would aid in dispelling the notion of concealment of the debt burden of

The local currency is back into free-fall mode against its major counterpart trading currency, the US dollar, as it records its highest depreciation since beginning of the year, B&FT analysis has shown. Data from the Bank of Ghana interbank FX rates show as of yesterday Tuesday, September 9, 2021, the cedi was trading at GH¢5.85

The teams focused their efforts on a few of the highest-value S&OP levers in order to review the current planning process, identify gaps in the planning infrastructure and analytically understand demand and supply variability.

The Economic Development Board of Mauritius has moved to assure South Africans with Mauritian trusts, in response to confusion and concern among its members and clients around the taxation of foreign investments in the island country. The EDB responded to an article published on BusinessTech entitled: “Bad news for South Africans with cash stashed in

Kenya could register a small primary surplus in 2023-2024, the first in two decades, buoyed by an economic recovery after the coronavirus pandemic, according to the World Bank. The primary deficit, which excludes interest payments, could come in at 4.6% of gross domestic product in the fiscal year through June, and swing to a 0.3%

Data from the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has shown that revenue generated from personal income tax has continuously seen a decline for the past five years – a situation that tax experts and authorities said can be partly blamed on the evasion of taxes by some professionals whose income are not captured in the tax

Government has been urged to slow down on excessive borrowing as a precaution to reduce the country’s debt to GDP ratio. According to the International Monetary Fund, Ghana’s debt to GDP ratio is higher than what was actually put out by the government. The nation’s debt to GDP ratio actually ended 2020 at 78% of