Tag: Dr. Patrick Asuming
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Stakeholders call for increased investment to improve quality of employment data
Stakeholders have bemoaned the seeming lack of transparent, real-time and verifiable data on jobs in the Ghana. Their disappointment follows the debate over the creation of 3 million jobs by the current government in its first term, during the vetting of Employment and Labour Relations Minister-nominee, Ignatius Baffour Awuah in parliament on February 17, 2021.…
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Key reforms needed to exceed 1.4% World Bank growth forecast – Economist
An economist at the University of Ghana Business School, Dr. Patrick Asuming says the current socio-economic climate which is heavily influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, provides government an opportunity to introduce and implement key reforms that will boost domestic revenue as well as economic growth. Per the World Bank’s 2021 Global Economic Prospects report, even though growth…
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Economist bemoans increasing use of domestic revenue for debt servicing
An economist at the University of Ghana Business School, Dr. Patrick Asuming, has advised government to pay particular attention to the percentage of the country’s revenue used in servicing its rising debt. His comment follows the International Monetary Fund, IMF’s projection that Ghana’s debt to GDP ratio would hit a troubling 76.7 percent by the…