Ghana

The media market in Ghana is widely considered to be one of Africa’s freest and most competitive, with a variety of outlets across a number of types of media. The country has made strides in recent years with legislation that ensures the population’s right to access government information and in proposing a broadcasting bill that will lay out stricter regulations regarding the ownership of...

Broad activity has increased dramatically over the past several years with the establishment of three new undersea links: the West Africa Cable System, Main One and Glo-1. While the pace of IT development is strong, particularly in comparison with other countries in the region, more efforts must be made to ensure connectivity outside of urban centres, which will mean lowering the prices of...

Ghana’s industrial sector is still quite small and import-reliant, with manufacturing making just a modest contribution to GDP. The sector has traditionally been based around a few key products, including cement, metals and agricultural products such as cocoa. However, a new five-year plan for the 2011-15 period has established the aim of increasing industrial competitiveness. This will largely...

Accounting for 10.1% of GDP in 2011, the transport sector in Ghana is comparable to several other countries within the same income bracket in the region. Major increases in imports and exports in recent years, along with the relatively recent development of oil and gas production, have helped push the expansion of transport and logistics in the country, with traffic at the two seaports having...

Since the discovery of offshore oil reserves in 2007, the Ghanaian government has reached a number of important decisions regarding production and distribution, and set the aim of reaching production in just 42 months. Crude oil output accounted for 6.8% of GDP in 2011, the first year of hydrocarbons production, and production is expected to be increased to 120,000 barrels per day by mid-2013....