The survey report released by CDD-Ghana shows, out of the total sample size, only 9 percent of Ghanaians are confident that the government will use revenue from the E-levy to fund development. This means, about 91% Ghanaians have no confident in the government when it comes to judicious
Banking
A multilateral institution, the World Bank, has urged the government to restore fiscal sustainability going forward in order to facilitate debt reduction to a sustainable level.
The Monetary Policy Committee, (MPC) will from this week begin to review the health of the economy and also announce a new policy rate for the next couple of months. But there strong indication that the BoG would hike the policy rate further in attempt to anchor inflation.
According to the Central Bank agriculture has broader implications on the economy, including price stability, exchange rate stability and generation export revenues from the sector.
The government spent about ¢10.6 billion to pay interest on loans in the first quarter of this year, with a chunk being used to service domestic debt.
The linkage of Ghana cards to bank accounts is a government initiative to weed out fraudsters from the banking sector.
Ghana’s policy rate of 19% is the second highest in Sub-Saharan Africa after Angola, Fitch Solutions tracking of 20 countries in the region has revealed.
The managers of the DBG say they have put enough measures in place to ensure that funds it lends to banks are used as planned
According to the latest Monetary Policy report by the Bank of Ghana, the bad debt is made up of loan losses, depreciation, among others.
They believe the Bank of Ghana’s measures put in place to curb the consistent rise in inflation are either not working or the situation is not being diagnosed properly. Both, are thereby calling on the government through the finance ministry to consider other factors such as the fiscal space.