Economy
- Banks borrowed GH¢2.57bn from BoG in pandemic year
- Inflation begins year at 9.9% as food prices decline
- Cedi shows resilience against dollar, euro
Sectoral
- Economic challenges keep cost of borrowing high
- COVID-19 Workplace Spread: Taskforce constituted to monitor compliance of protocols
- Finance Ministry pays GH₵12bn to IPPs since 2017
- SSNIT to integrate Ghana Card unto System
- Ghana’s local cocoa processing capacity hits 50% of production
- Ghana’s financial markets are showing strong resilience against the economic impacts of COVID 19’s second wave
Trade & Investment
- Sensitisation Seminar on the AfCFTA
Policy
- Small businesses must tap into 1.3bn consumer market presented by AfCFTA
International
- EU to work with Biden administration to settle trade disputes
- Ghanaian exports to UK still attract tariffs
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