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A new World Bank report launched here Thursday said export diversification would help Ghana reap the benefits of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The new report, titled "Ghana Trade Competitiveness Diagnostic-Strengthening Ghana's Trade Competitiveness in the Context of AfCFTA," said the West African country could strengthen its trade…
One-fifth of the global population under the age of 25 now resides in rapidly growing Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the world’s youngest region. With the right education and training, this population could be a great asset for development and provide a comparative advantage in world markets. However, high and rising youth unemployment rates threaten to disrupt this potential
Dr Priscilla Twumasi Baffour is a Senior Lecturer at Department of Economics, University of Ghana
The timing of the taxes announced by the government in the 2021 budget and economic statement is “problematic”, Dr Priscilla Twumasi Baffour, a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics, University of Ghana, has said.
In her view, the government could have been more “innovative” with the taxation option by targeting the haves instead of burdening the have-nots, too, with the same taxes.
Caretaker Finance Minister Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, on Friday, 12 March 2021, told Parliament while delivering this year’s budget that the government is introducing a 10p sanitation and pollution levy; and 20p excess power capacity levy, both on the Energy Sector Levy Act (ESLA) with the combined effect is an increase in the ex-pump price of fuel by 5.7 percent.