As Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta and his Treasury team rule out any resort to the International Monetary Fund on nationalist grounds they are taking a different set of political risks by imposing an unpopular electronic transaction tax (the E-Levy) and pledging to cut state spending by up to a fifth...

Last November it managed to orchestrate the rejection of the 2022 Budget Statement presented by Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta (AC Vol 62 No 24 Bonds and budget blockers)...

But central bank governor Ernest Addison and Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta will struggle to steer the economy towards the 6% growth target this year while controlling inflation boosting revenues controlling the fiscal deficit and managing the debt burden...

Faced by a powerful opposition party Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta's 2022 budget statement presented on 17 November to Parliament was always unlikely to have an easy passage...

Back in August Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta claimed the programme will directly benefit from the International Monetary Fund's distribution to Ghana of $1 billion-worth in Special Drawing Rights (the IMF's currency) in August...

It all came to a head for Amidu when he accused the President and Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta of interference after he published his corruption risk assessment of Agyapa accusing the government of violating procurement law when hiring transaction advisors for the deal...

Known for starting meetings with prayers and peppering them with Biblical quotations Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta took time off from the Christian Sabbath on 9 May to invite journalists to his office to hear his economic plans...

Key ministers next in line for vetting include Ken Ofori-Atta (Finance) who will be quizzed on the energy debt and the failed attempt to privatise the state power distribution company...