The field would be headed by Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia a Muslim from northern Ghana and said to be Akufo-Addo's choice as successor He could likely face heavyweight rivals such as Joe Ghartey (Railways Minister) Alan Kyerematen (Trade) Kyeremateng Agyarko (former Energy) and Ken Ofori Atta (Finance)...
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Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta acknowledges the deficit will exceed 11% though his disgruntled predecessor Seth Terkper suggests it will be between 13% and 15% while the IMF projects a fiscal deficit exceeding 16% the highest in SSA...
Akufo-Addo had wanted Amidu to delay the report and to look at advice from Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta...
Finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta's scheme to float a company in Jersey a British tax haven to scoop up the rights to royalties from 16 of Ghana's richest gold mines is rapidly becoming a liability for the government...
Akufo-Addo's key policymakers finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta and central bank governor Ernest Addison moved quickly at the start of the emergency in March with more social service funding and a request for finance from the International Monetary Fund...
On 21 May an outfit calling itself 'Open Source Investigations' released a report accusing finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta of a gross conflict of interest via his indirect stakes in a joint venture company with ExxonMobil on the Deepwater Cape Three Points oil block...
They are working closely with Ghana's Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta and South Africa's Tito Mboweni both of whose countries face escalating debt service obligations over the next five years...
Ghana's Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta who chairs the joint World Bank-IMF Development Committee told the Centre for Global Development that 'China has to come on stronger' in discussions over an economic response...
Vol 61 No 7 |
- AFRICA
- COVID-19
Economic Commission for AfricaAfter convening a virtual meeting of finance ministers chaired by Ghana's Ken Ofori Atta the ECA published a report arguing for a $100bn economic stimulus for Africa of which $44bn could come from a moratorium on debt service...
The deficit may yet increase should Akufo-Addo and Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta boost election-year spending over the projections in the 2020 budget...
With national elections a year away Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta tried to combine political bullishness and banker's caution when he read the 2020 budget statement in parliament on 13 November...
The founder of Databank in Accra Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta pledged to abolish all 'nuisance taxes' on taking office in January 2017 as well as to cut taxes and other constraints on 'entrepreneurship'...