Bloomberg, April 25, Ghanadot - Fiscal deficits
in sub-Saharan Africa are rising, with Ghana and Zambia
the most at risk if there’s a sudden reversal of foreign
inflows, the International Monetary Fund said.
Budget shortfalls in the region “are elevated
considering the prevailing high growth and still high
commodity prices,” Antoinette Sayeh, director of the
Washington-based lender’s Africa department, said in a
statement on the IMF’s website. In Ghana and Zambia,
spending has been growing at “unsustainable levels,” the
IMF said in its Regional Economic Outlook. .....
Ghanaweb, April 22, Ghanadot - The Co-ordinator
of the Third World Network (TWN), Dr Yao Graham, opined
that the discussion of the EPA should be about the
vision of the country for the future and that should be
the driving force behind the decisions and choices
made.....He was emphatic that the best means of arriving
at an informed discussion was for the discussion to be
guided by cost benefit analysis based on access to
required information on the agreement........More
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Commentary, April 22, Ghanadot - Our immediate
concern is to do with the blatant conflict of interest
in the fact that our President will allow government to
hire for official functions a private jet acquired by
his brother......
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Bloomberg, April 25, Ghanadot - Fiscal deficits
in sub-Saharan Africa are rising, with Ghana and Zambia
the most at risk if there’s a sudden reversal of foreign
inflows, the International Monetary Fund said. .........More
Ghanaweb, April 22, Ghanadot - Bertha Tepey, a
retailer in textiles has suggested that government
tackled the alleged widespread plagiarizing of African
textile designs in China at the bilateral level.........More
