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G-24 advocates robust financial buffer for Ghana, other developing nations

Business News of Wednesday, 12 April 2023 Source: GNAFinancial buffer for developing countries The Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four (G-24) have urged more substantial financial buffers from global development actors to enable Ghana and other developing countries to speedily meet their debt needs. Ghana, Sri Lanka, Zambia, Suriname, Belize, Zambia, and Ecuador are among the debt-distressed developing nations whose external debt increased ...

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ORC to strike out names of 2,812 churches, CSOs for not filing annual returns

Business News of Thursday, 13 April 2023 Source: atinkaonline.com Mrs Jemima Mamaa Oware, Registrar Of Companies The Office of the Registrar of Companies (ORC) has notified all officials and leaders of Churches, Associations, Fun Clubs, Unions, Schools, and Civil Society Organizations(CSOs) that, by the end of June 2023, it will begin the process of validating and striking off 2,812 of these ...

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Kwaku Kwarteng, Ato Forson, 7 others in Washington for IMF, World Bank meetings

General News of Thursday, 13 April 2023 Source: www.ghanaweb.com Obuasi West MP Kwaku Kwarteng is the leader of delegation Parliament is represented by a nine-member in Washington DC as part of Ghana’s delegation attending the 2023 IMF/ World Bank Spring Meetings. The delegation is led by MP for Obuasi West and chairman of the finance committee in Parliament, Kwaku Kwarteng. The ...

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IMF urges China to ‘speed up’ work on debt restructuring for Ghana, others

Business News of Friday, 7 April 2023   Kristalina Georgieva, IMF Managing Director International Monetary Fund (IMF) Chief Kristalina Georgieva said she told China’s new top economic official, Li Qiang, they must accelerate work to reach debt restructuring agreements for countries like Zambia, Ghana and Ethiopia. Georgieva, who met with Li and other top Chinese officials during a visit to China ...

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Norway Supreme Court dismisses appeal against Ghana

General News of Tuesday, 4 April 2023 Source: www.ghanaweb.com Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame   The Supreme Court of Norway has, in a unanimous preliminary determination by a panel of three (3), refused to grant leave to appeal to Messrs. Jongsbru AS, party to a judgment of the Norway Court of Appeal previously given in favour of ...

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Integrated aluminium industry to create nearly 2 million sustainable jobs – Minister

Business News of Tuesday, 4 April 2023 Source: thebftonline.com Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor With an estimated bauxite resource base of over 900 million metric tonnes, a comprehensive development of an integrated aluminium industry would create nearly 2 million sustainable jobs with an anticipated US$1trillion in total revenue for the country, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources Samuel ...

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Three new taxes already existed – Oppong-Nkrumah

Business News of Tuesday, 4 April 2023 Source: www.ghanaweb.com Kojo Oppong Nkrumah is Information Minister Minister of Information Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah has stated that the three tax bills that were passed by Parliament on March 31, 2023 were already existing taxes that needed amendments. According to him, the notion that these taxes were new and will cause hardships and overburden Ghanaians is not true. ...

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FULL TEXT: NPP Chairman responds to NDC’s True ‘SoNA’

Politics of Wednesday, 5 April 2023 Source: www.ghanaweb.com Stephen Ntim, NPP National Chairman National Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party on April 5 addressed a press conference at the party headquarters in Accra. Stephen Ntim addressed a number of issues at the conference stressing on the economic records of the main opposition National Democratic Congress and that of the NPP ...

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NPP has increased Ghana’s debt stock by ‘just’ 304% – National Chairman

Business News of Wednesday, 5 April 2023 Source: classfmonline.com Stephen Ntim, NPP National Chairman The administrations of the National Democratic Congress that took over from President John Kufuor added the most to Ghana’s debt stock, the Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Mr Stephen Ntim, has said. At a press conference on Tuesday, 4 April 2023, Stephen Ntim said: “One of the central claims ...

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Parliament passes three new taxes

Business News of Saturday, 1 April 2023 Taxes | File photo Parliament has passed three new tax measures during an extended sitting of Friday, March 31, 2023. The said taxes also faced stiff opposition from the Minority Caucus in the House but the Majority managed to marshall all their numbers on the day to get the taxes passed. The three new ...

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