Adam Hudu

Despite a notable increase in per capita income over recent years, widespread inequality persists in Ghana, according to the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER). This revelation comes from ISSER’s 2024 Mid-Year Budget Review, titled “A Critical Assessment of the 2024 Mid-Year Budget by ISSER.” By June 2024, inflation had decreased to 22.8%, […]

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called on African Leaders to work with a sense of urgency to stop the illicit financial outflows from the continent. He said they needed to pay serious attention to and arrest the situation, which was depriving Africa of significant resources that could be used to support its development. The […]

The Executive Director of the Integrated Social Development Centre ( ISODEC), Mr Sam Salifu Danse has stated that the pervasive poverty and widening inequality in Nigeria can be addressed if natural resource wealth in the West African country is used prudently by successive governments. According to Mr Danse, Nigeria, unlike other countries is blessed with […]

A Consultant and former Executive Director of the Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC) Dr. Bishop Akolgo has proposed to the government to consider making the Bank of Ghana (BoG) the sole buyer and exporter of Ghana’s Gold.   “Government should empower the central bank as the sole buyer and exporter of Ghana’s gold so that this […]

The Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC), one of Ghana’s foremost Policy, Research and Advocacy Think Tanks has donated wide-ranging research reports to the Balme Library and the Department of Public Administration of University of Ghana Business School (UGBS). The reports donated are titled,” C0VID-19 Impact Studies on the Natural Resources Sector of Five Anglophone countries in West; […]

Ghana’s bondholders must cut debt payments by 50% if they are to match the terms agreed by governmental creditors such as China and the UK. New figures released by the Integrated Social Development Centre Ghana (ISODEC) and Debt Justice in the UK show that the amount of debt relief currently being discussed would lead to […]