December 19, 2011
The Centre for Policy Analysis (CEPA) has called on the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) to publish the price build up of all petroleum prices in the country. That, it believes, is necessary to ensure transparency in the dealings of the NPA. The Executive Director of CEPA, Dr Joe Abbey, who made the call, said, “For ...
December 19, 2011
Standard Chartered’s credit rating has been upgraded to AA- by global rating agency Standard & Poor’s. Other banks such as Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank of America, and JP Morgan Stanley were downgraded. The fresh AA- credit rating makes it the only major international bank to receive an upgrade by all three rating agencies since the ...
December 16, 2011
Consumer inflation shed a marginal 0.01 percentage points in November to reach 8.55 percent, keeping price expectations subdued ahead of a high-spending holiday season. This should support a neutral stance on monetary policy as the Bank of Ghana?s monetary-policy committee begins its deliberations next week, analysts said. The central bank has held its policy rate ...
June 22, 2011
The Vice President of policy think tank IMANI Ghana, Kofi Bentil has stated that the ineptitude of state institutions mandated to provide necessary Identification cards to the citizenry must be blamed for the distortions and delay in the SIM card registration exercise which will come to an end on July 1. ?I want to say ...