It doesn't mean though that they are not reversible can't be slowed [down] or overridden by other processes such as a Muslim northerner ' argued Bright Simons a research executive at Imani an Accra-based think-tank...
Bright Simons of the IMANI Centre for Policy and Education in Accra questions whether the stakes acquired by the minerals income investment fund could be diluted in the future...
Bright Simons of IMANI an Accra-based think tank reckons that Bawumia and the NPP still have a path to a presidential win if the NDC cannot get its own 'Akan heartland' strategy...
Bright Simons of the IMANI Centre for Policy and Education in Accra says this reliance on T-bills in effect inflicts a borrowing cost on the government in excess of 30% a year and could during 2024 reverse this year's reduction in its domestic debt service payments...
Bright Simons of the IMANI Centre for Policy and Education in Accra argues that the BoG's significant loss in credibility has already undermined its monetary policy including its ability to conduct open market operations...
Bright Simons Vice-President of the IMANI Africa think-tank argues that 'of these four reasons only the last [interest expense on monetary policy operations] can be adduced to support the BoG's innocence but it accounts for only 6% of the losses...
Because it may stop the drift to hyperinflation and help stabilise the cedi (which is currently the fastest appreciating emerging market currency according to Bloomberg News) the IMF deal could give the NPP a fighting chance in the 2024 elections says Bright Simons of the Accra-based IMANI Centre for Policy and Education...
Bright Simons of the IMANI Centre for Policy and Education in Accra argues that while the gold purchase programme should in theory represent a boon for small-scale gold miners 'gold-for-oil' effectively amounts to purchasing dollars (for oil product imports) at a more expensive rate...
Bright Simons of the IMANI centre think tank in Accra argues that unlike troubled banks in the United States and Europe Ghana's banks are unlikely to face a swift withdrawal of deposits and a collapse of lending...
The analyst and activist Bright Simons says there is a 'sweetheart deal' in place which hugely advantages Genser in what he calls 'a case of possible fiscal recklessness on the part of the GNPC'...
' ‘The procurement abuses and the poor project planning and management means that either the project will fail or it will cost as much as eight times its original estimate of $100 million creating massive financial losses to the state ' said Bright Simons of Accra think-tank IMANI Africa...