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What can be done to mitigate the effects of the ongoing retrenchment in the industry?

Although often overlooked by outside investors, small miners play a central role in Ghana’s gold industry. Counting groups and individuals, both regulated and unlicensed, they account for nearly 35% of total production, according to 2013 figures from the Minerals Commission. As the Ghana Chamber of Mines (GCM) points out, this is 10 percentage points higher than Gold...

How should the risk-based supervision model work alongside minimum capital requirements?

Since the Insurance Act of 2006 was passed, regulators have been looking at solvency, capital and inclusiveness, and issuing frameworks and guidelines to compel insurers to strengthen their balance sheets and reserve against unforeseen claims. This has encouraged them to write more micro-insurance policies.

The country’s insurance sector is open and liberalised and, as with Ghana’s other major financial service sectors, has benefitted extensively from foreign investment. Since the 1990s, capital and expertise have entered the insurance market and helped in the development of the sector. As of early 2014, more than half of the insurance companies in Ghana were foreign...

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