Vol 2 (AAC) No 11 | GHANACHINABRIEFING An oil barter rescue 22nd September 2009 Oil industry officials in Accra are linking Finance Minister Kwabena Duffuor's 18 September statement that Ghana had applied for a US$2 billion concessional loan from China to...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 9 | GHANASOUTH AFRICAINDIA MTN, militants and share claims 31st July 2009 A tangled web of financial holdings stretching from South Africa to Ghana and Lebanon could delay plans for a US$20 billion merger of India's Bharti Airtel and South Africa's Mobile Telephone...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 5 | GHANAVIETNAM Victoria Kwakwa 27th March 2009 World Bank Country Director for Vietnam Ghanaian economist Victoria Kwakwa starts her job as World Bank Country Director for Vietnam in April. It is an important posting, given Vietnam's economic record over the past three...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 3 | GHANACHINA Ghana's votes and China's dams 30th January 2009 The Beijing-Accra axis, which dates back to the heady Independence days of President Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana, is an important one for both sides. Beijing wants a strong economic relationship with Ghana...
Vol 49 No 25 | GHANA The winner has to wait 12th December 2008 After one of the closest presidential elections ever, the front-runners are preparing for a run-off vote in less than three weeks’ time The hard-fought general elections on 7 December saw many national political figures lose their parliamentary seats. Neither of the two leading presidential candidates gained enough votes to win...
Vol 49 No 25 | GHANA More pressure on the cedi 12th December 2008 Whoever wins the second round of the presidential election – John Atta Mills or Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo – will have to make tough economic decisions as...
Vol 49 No 19 | GHANA A rough beginning 19th September 2008 The election campaign is under way and the battle is on for votes in the north In northern Ghana, the campaign got off to a violent start when Mahamudu Bawumia, vice-presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party for the elections on 7 December, arrived...
Vol 49 No 19 | GHANA Running mates 19th September 2008 The two main parties’ vice-presidential candidates are both under fifty years old and from northern Ghana. Otherwise they are very different. The National Democratic Congress’s John Dramani...
Vol 49 No 18 | GHANA Voting violence 5th September 2008 Concern about the conduct of December’s elections is growing in the wake of violent clashes during the primary elections, electoral registration and political rallies.
Vol 49 No 17 | GHANA Right number, right time 22nd August 2008 Just as the government runs out of money before the elections, along comes an offer that is hard to refuse It is a rule of politics that any substantial sale of state assets agreed less than six months before national elections needs close scrutiny. The government's decision...