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Income inequality elevated, spikes: Oxfam

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2024
... 106 counties that receive grants or loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. Income inequality in Ghana, Honduras, Mozambique, and 39 other countries stood at high levels. The rapid rate in which inequality increased was most ...

Financial services exec embroiled in bribery scheme

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. On behalf of the Turkish energy company, Berko funnelled at least US$2.5 million to a Ghana-based intermediary to pay the bribes to the country's government. The SEC alleges that Berko helped the intermediary pay more ...

Chief economist update: Oil's well that ends 2019 well

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2019
... to 2.1 mb/d to take account of lower output from participants in the OPEC+ deal and a weaker growth outlook for Brazil, Ghana and the United States. Even so, with our demand outlook unchanged, there could still be a surplus of 0.7 mb/d in the market ...

Norway dominates sovereign wealth funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
... fixed income constitute an important component of most investment portfolios (82% and 78% respectively). Some funds, such as Ghana's two sovereign wealth funds and Peru's Fiscal Stabilisation Fund prefer low-risk strategies by allocating all funds in ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2016
... competition in key sectors is critical for competitiveness and economic growth. For example, if countries like Ethiopia, Ghana, Zambia and others were to reform their professional services markets, this could generate nearly half a percentage point in ...

Bloomberg partners with DFAT for health program

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2016
... health "priorities" in a country. The first 18 countries to join the initiative are: Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Malawi, Morocco, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Tanzania ...

PROFILE: Actuaries Institute CEO David Bell

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... includes army officer, government adviser, management consultant, and lobbyist. This life of variety began with his birth in Ghana in the early sixties. He spent his first few years in Nigeria, where his British father worked for a company that sold ...

African dev't needs private equity: Mobius

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2010
... most liquid market in sub-Saharan Africa and Nigeria is quickly emerging as an investment destination. Kenya, Botswana, Ghana and Morocco are also presenting interesting investment opportunities but liquidity is still a concern, he said. Mobius said ...

African bourse on the rise

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
... Another index, the NSE 20 Share was also the best performing index last year, beating similar indices in Egypt, South Africa, Ghana and Morocco. On a stock-by-stock performance, NSE-listed stocks posted triple digits gain last year, among them Kenya ...

Deck reshuffle at Challenger

... services director. OIA provides microfinance and micro enterprise development (MED) services to the working poor in Indonesia, Ghana, East Timor, the Philippines and India. Cuffe will help the organisation raise investment capital and manage strategic ...
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