Vol 50 No 8 | GHANA The Mills grind slowly 17th April 2009 Under attack from his own party as well as the opposition, the President strives to shape his government To mark his hundredth day in office on 17 April President John Evans Atta Mills gave his government eight out of ten for trying to fight corruption, protect citizens from armed rob...
Vol 50 No 8 | GHANA Sums that don't add up 17th April 2009 Perhaps the toughest job in President John Atta Mills's government is the Finance and Economic Planning portfolio, held by Kwabena Duffuor. Having, by reducing duties and levies, b...
Vol 50 No 3 | GHANA Lining up the Mills team 6th February 2009 The economy is the new President's first concern but politics drives many of his appointments Three weeks after being sworn in as President in succession to John Agyekum Kufuor, Professor John Evans Atta Mills has completed his cabinet line-up and set about formulating an e...
Vol 50 No 3 | GHANA Is Rawlings the back-seat driver? 6th February 2009 The doings and sayings of former President Jerry John Rawlings always fascinate the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) as well as journalists. Rawlings likes nothing better than ...
Vol 50 No 2 | GHANA Back to the battleground 23rd January 2009 After a celebrated election, President John Atta Mills takes on a fractious parliament There was little time for Ghanaians to luxuriate in the praises heaped on them for another peaceful transfer of power on 7 January before having to confront some harsh political an...
Vol 50 No 2 | GHANA Economic facts and fantasies 23rd January 2009 Loyalists of the outgoing National Patriotic Party (NPP) government reacted angrily to World Bank Country Director Ishac Diwan's dire warnings about Ghana's economy. Estimating the...
Vol 50 No 1 | GHANA Two and a half cheers for democracy 9th January 2009 Ghanaians show the rest of Africa how it can be done Ghanaians start the year with a collective sigh of relief that the close-run parliamentary and presidential elections did not descend into political mayhem (AC Vol 49 No 25). The v...
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 Bei...
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 Mob...
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 th...