Ghana: Transforming a Crisis into a Journey Toward Prosperity (www.imf.org)
Ghana is making important inroads to stabilize its economy, and continued program implementation beckons a brighter future.
Ghana is making important inroads to stabilize its economy, and continued program implementation beckons a brighter future.
With the property downturn in its third year, progress in downsizing the sector has been rapid in some respects, the IMF says in a recent report....
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As the world struggles to restrict global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and parts of Asia, Europe and the United States swelter in extreme heat, subsidies for oil, coal and natural gas are costing the equivalent of 7.1 percent of global gross domestic product. That’s more than governments spend annually on education (4.3...
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