Ghana’s State-Owned Enterprises – Questions of Performance
State Interests and Governance Authority, 2023 State Ownership Report. 29 August 2024 The 2023 State Ownership Report – the eighth in the series – has received more media attention than the 2022 Report published a week or two earlier. Its publication was swiftly followed by the SIGA Annual Stakeholders Forum with much media coverage. The […]
The Mid-Year Budget Review – A Boost For Cocoa Farmers
The Mid-Year Fiscal Policy Review of the 2023 Budget Statement and Economic Policy of the Government of Ghana was presented to Parliament on July 31, 2023. As part of the presentation, the Honorable Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, provided an update on one of the required structural reforms of the current International Monetary Fund (IMF) […]
The IMF Bailout And Ghana COCOBOD
In May, the International Monetary Fund made public the full report on Ghana’s request for a bailout. I wrote back then, highlighting aspects of the report and the challenges ahead for the government. I revisit the concerns raised about the operations of COCOBOD and the demand for reforms. This is what the report said, “Ghana’s […]
