While Ghana boasts a number of advantages for manufacturers, including access to a 300m-person regional market, a host of raw material inputs and competitive labour costs, 2014 was a particularly challenging year for the industrial sector. In large part this was due to a declining currency, power shortages, limited credit and high overhead costs. Nevertheless, industry still accounts for 28.4...
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Chapter | Industry & Retail from The Report: Ghana 2016
Growing at one of the fastest rates in Africa, Ghana’s insurance sector continues to do well despite the headwinds faced by the overall economy. Analysts and market participants are expecting years of solid performance as awareness, penetration and density increase and converge towards global averages. Companies in the sector are reporting strong profits and good premium growth, while interest...
Situated on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa, Ghana’s natural resource wealth and status as a stable democracy have helped make it a prominent player in the region. It is the world’s second-largest exporter of cocoa, behind Côte d’Ivoire, and one of the continent’s largest gold producers. Recently discovered reserves of oil and gas have powered the economy to double-digit growth in the past decade.
Chapter | Industry & Retail from The Report: Ghana 2014
In spite of its role as one of Africa’s fastest growing economies, Ghana has yet to fully transition its agriculture and resource commodities base into a vibrant and diversified industrial sector. According to the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), industry accounted for 28.6% of GDP in 2013. While not the region’s largest market, Ghana does provide a range of competitive advantages, including a...
Mining and quarrying contributed 9.8% of Ghana’s GDP in 2013, up from 9.5% in 2012, according to the Ghana Chamber of Mines (GCM), the main industry association. Nevertheless, the sector had a subdued year in 2013 and was affected by a range of factors that hit the industry globally. So important is mining to Ghana’s economy that its slower performance fed through to lower GDP growth. Total...
Ghana has developed a reputation as a robust and stable democracy, and with a storied legacy of pan-African initiatives it has long punched above its weight diplomatically. While the recent oil boom following the discovery of the offshore Jubilee field in 2007 has helped to fuel GDP growth as much as 14% over recent years, it is now projected to slow to a more modest 4.5% in 2014.