Ghana
The Trade Hub
Accra, Ghana is the home of USAID/West Africa’s Trade and Investment Hub (the Trade Hub) helps the region’s farmers
and firms compete, attract investment, and boost trade. We do this by strengthening the competitive capacity of West
Africa’s farmers and firms in high-potential
regional
and
global
value chains, while also
addressing transport constraints and barriers along the region’s
trade corridors and borders. To expand
access to finance and investment in our target value chains, the Trade Hub facilitates relationships between
businesses and financial institutions.
The Trade Hub works throughout West Africa, but especially in the member countries of the
Economic Community of West African States (
ECOWAS) and the West African Economic and
Monetary Union (WAEMU).
https://www.watradehub.com/en/
Ghana Women in Business in Leadership:
http://www.gwibconference.com/
Ghana Association of Women Entrepreneurs:
http://www.ghanawomenentrepreneurs.org/home
Ghana Investment Promotion Center:
http://www.gipcghana.com/invest-in-ghana/doing-business-in-ghana.html
World Bank Group Doing Business Report:
http://www.doingbusiness.org/~/media/WBG/DoingBusiness/Documents/Profiles/Country/GHA.pdf
Ghanaian Embassy:
https://www.ghanaembassydc.org/
Ghana Knowledge Products:
https://www.afdb.org/en/countries/west-africa/ghana/ghana-knowledge-products/
Ghana Economic Outlook
Economic growth fell from 14% in 2011 at the onset of oil production to 3.5% in 2016, the lowest in two decades. The economy
recovered in 2017, growing an estimated 6.3%, spurred by recovery in nonoil sectors, lower inflation, and new hydrocarbon
wells (the Tweneboa, Enyenra, Ntomme, and Sankofa oil and gas fields). Over the medium term, economic growth is expected
to accelerate to 8.5% in 2018 and then moderate at 6.2% in 2019 as the budget and current account deficits narrow amid lower
inflation and falling interest rates.
