Industry has been a significant source of economic growth for Ghana in recent years, a trend that continued despite the Covid-19 pandemic. While in the past industrial development has been tied to resource endowments such as cocoa, mining and crude...
Chapter | Industry & Retail from The Report: Ghana 2022
As Africa’s largest gold miner and the world’s second-largest cocoa producer, Ghana has witnessed steady growth in recent years. While the country was impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, it navigated the crisis better than many of its income-level peers, in large part thanks to measures aimed at boosting public revenue. Ghana aims to improve its fiscal deficit in 2022 to 7.4% of GDP.
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Articles & Analysis | Industrialisation drive to cushion Nigeria from oil price volatility from The Report: Nigeria 2022
Nigeria has a varied industrial sector, evidenced by the number of separate activities tracked as part of the government’s GDP valuations. Despite 2020 being a tough year for many sectors worldwide, two industrial segments that the country is known for posted positive growth. Major projects continue to push ahead, such as Nigeria’s first...
Articles & Analysis | How Nigeria aims to boost mining’s share of GDP from The Report: Nigeria 2022
The Nigerian landscape holds over 30 types of solid minerals in an identified 450 locations. Deposits span gemstones, metallic ores, energy minerals and construction materials, such as granite. While the mining sector was a mainstay of the economy up until the late 1960s, the focus on oil from that point on has seen the mining’s share of GDP...