Tag: Professor Peter Quartey
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Economist backs World Bank’s 9.8% end-of-year inflation rate projection for Ghana
The World Bank has projected that Ghana would end this year with an inflation rate of 9.8 percent. This forecast in the Africa Pulse Report by the World Bank falls within the Bank of Ghana’s target of 8 +/-2%. “In Ghana, weak domestic currency combined with a rise in food prices pushed headline inflation from…
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Invest borrowed money into productive activities – Prof. Quartey to government
As the discussion around the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) classification of Ghana as a low income developing country continues, the Head of the Institute for Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), Professor Peter Quartey has called on the government to focus on building a resilient economy that will thrive after the COVID-19 pandemic is dealt…
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Rawlings’ divestiture of SOEs, economic reforms were remarkable – Prof. Quartey
Former Head of the Economics Department at the University of Ghana and Professor at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), Professor Peter Quartey says some economic policies implemented during the Jerry John Rawlings era have been fundamental to the sustained economic growth Ghana is enjoying now. The first President of the 4th…