Access to long-term capital remains a major barrier to private sector growth in Ghana. Firms access long-term capital primarily through the capital markets, and as the economy continues to expand, demand for long-term capital to facilitate strong growth will also continue to rise. In Ghana the cost of capital, access to credit and access to...
THE COMPANY: Total Petroleum Ghana was incorporated in Ghana on December 31, 1951 as Socony-Vacuum Oil Company (Gold Coast Limited). It was at that point a wholly-owned subsidiary of Socony-Vacuum Oil of the US. The name of the Ghanaian subsidiary was changed from Mobil Oil Gold Coast to Mobil Oil...
High expectations for the impact of pension reforms on the performance of equity markets and bonds have been deflated after the funding issues and technical glitches slowed the flow of investments from the second tier of the revised pension system. Hundreds of millions of cedis had been expected to be invested annually as 5% of wages were...
The Ghanaian economy is strongly correlated to global commodities such as cocoa, gold and oil, which are the three main sources of income and foreign currency. Price swings for these three resources, increased spending on domestic public sector wages, an electricity shortage and other external factors have combined to slow the pace of...
The finalisation of a $918m borrowing programme through the IMF in April 2015 means Ghana’s economic trends over the short and medium terms will be predictable and structured, featuring a series of just-published targets and objectives. The government and the IMF have agreed to a three-year plan to address challenges. The process is called the...
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