Economy
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Communications Minister, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful falsely claims that UK’s Digital Services Tax is about 10%
Claim: Ghana’s Communications and Digitalization Minister, Ursula Owusu-Ekufu, has asserted that the United Kingdom’s Digital Tax rate is about 10%.…
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False; Ghana is NOT the only sub-Saharan African country to record a positive GDP growth in 2020 as claimed by John Boadu
Claim: Ghana is the only country in sub-Saharan Africa to record a positive GDP growth in 2020, General Secretary of…
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2022 budget rejected; what next for the government?
Parliament for the first time in the fourth republic has voted to disapprove a national budget, the 2022 Budget Statement…
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PART 2: #BawumiaSpeaks: More False Claims Found in Vice President Dr Bawumia’s Digitization Speech
On November 2, 2021, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia delivered a public lecture on the digital economy of the country…
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#BawumiaSpeaks: Fact-checking Bawumia’s Digitization Speech at Ashesi
A Cocktail of True, False and Partly False Claims: Part 1
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Akufo-Addo falsely claims that Ghana’s economic growth rate in 2016 was the country’s lowest in over 20 years
President Nana Akufo-Addo says that the country’s economic growth rate in 2016 was its lowest in over 20 years. Ghana’s…
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Unpacking GIPC’s Claims on Ghana’s Performance in Foreign Direct Investments for 2019 and 2020
The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) officially launched its investment summit dubbed, “Spark up”, on August 3, 2021, at the…
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Ghana’s E-Cedi: What you need to know about Ghana’s Digital Currency (E-CEDI)
The Bank of Ghana (BOG) in September 2021 will pilot the digital Cedi currency also known as the E-CEDI. This…
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BOG Declined An Invitation to Assist Parliament’s Probe Into the Revocation of Banking Licenses. Here’s what experts have to Say
The Bank of Ghana, in June this year, made headlines after it announced that it will not honour an invitation…
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Did the President of the World Bank Tell the Akufo-Addo Government to Stop Borrowing and Fix the Country?
Claim: President of the World Bank has asked Ghana’s president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to stop borrowing and fix his…
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