Month: November 2021

Ghana will receive a 20% free equity share for gold refined locally when Royal Gold Ghana Limited begins operation this year. Currently, all the gold produced by mining companies in the country are refined outside, therefore, the government gains nothing from gold refined abroad. In that vein, the government entered into a public-private partnership with an Indian company, Rosy Royal Limited, to […]

Economist at the University of Ghana Business School, Prof Godfred Bokpin fears that government’s flagship Free Senior High School (SHS) policy will deepen the inequality gap in the country. A report by Oxfam Ghana has revealed that Ghana is currently failing in its quest to minimize inequality, especially in the areas of health, employment, wages […]

President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo has stressed the need for a measured approach to tackling climate change in poorer countries. In his address to world leaders at the ongoing COP26 summit in Scotland, President Akufo-Addo argued that countries like Ghana could not afford to forgo the exploitation of natural resources in favour of protecting the environment. […]