Louis Hodey 🇬🇭

🇬🇭 The sole-sourcing for “Big Push” debate. Similar investment levels, very different outcomes. Some countries turn investment into growth. Others don’t. Ghana sits in the middle—moderate investment, modest returns. The difference is not just spending—it’s efficiency.

The UN General Assembly has adopted a Ghana-led resolution recognising transatlantic slavery as the “gravest crime against humanity,” passing despite opposition from the US, Israel, Argentina, and European countries.

UN votes to recognise slavery as 'gravest crime against humanity' bbc.in/3PnDIe6

🇬🇭We keep blaming wages. The data points more to a revenue problem. #Ghana’s wage bill isn’t unusually high by peer standards. The issue is a weak revenue base that cannot sustain even a 'normal' payroll. That’s the real fiscal constraint. @MoF_Ghana @Cassielforson @senyohosi @TucGhana

“When fundamentals are weak, any shock passes through immediately to prices at the pumps” — Prof. Fred Dzanku, Development Economist, ISSER, University of Ghana, on how inflation and exchange rate pressures amplify the impact of external shocks. Watch the full discussion here: youtube.com/watch?v=bS7gVx… #PointofView #ChannelOneNews #CitiFM #GhanaNews

🇬🇭 #Fuel prices in #Ghana don’t necessarily jump because #crudeoil spikes. They often jump because the cedi weakens. A projected 17% increase this week may look unusual—but it still isn’t explained by crude oil alone. Exchange rate remains the dominant driver.

🇬🇭The ability of an economy to absorb labour into industry depends heavily on the size of its #manufacturing sector. #Ghana sits in the lower-left quadrant, where labour absorption into stable wage jobs is limited.

🇬🇭 Industrial jobs do not appear by accident. Aross countries, economies with larger manufacturing sectors tend to employ a greater share of workers in industry. Ghana sits toward the lower end of this relationship—helping explain why queues for formal jobs can become so large.

Oil markets are already reacting to tensions in the Gulf, as prices hit $100 Fuel price shocks ripple through the inflation system in #Ghana A 10% petrol price increase: * raises transport costs 2.9% * pushes food prices 1.5% * lifts CPI 6.1% via food * and about 0.8% directly

🇬🇭A striking pattern on #InternationalWomensDay2026: on average, countries with greater gender equality tend to be richer. The relationship is not perfect, but the global pattern is hard to ignore. Gender equality is not just a social goal — it is closely tied to development.

🇬🇭 Around #independence , #Ghana's income per person was comparable to several peers in Africa and Asia. Six decades later, the gap with some is enormous. Botswana is clearly Africa’s development “miracle”, while Côte d’Ivoire shows how paths since independence can diverge.

🇬🇭Earlier I showed that in Ghana, pump prices respond more strongly to exchange rate movements than to oil prices in the short run. But during the 2022–23 crisis, the system became far more sensitive: a 10% oil or FX shock led to much larger pump price increases than before.

🇬🇭In #Ghana, pump prices respond more strongly to FX movements than to #oil price changes in the short run. A 10% cedi depreciation raises fuel prices by ~6% within three months. A 10% oil price increase raises them by ~2–3%. Cedi stability matters as much as #OilPrices.

🇬🇭My great-grandfather migrated to Bowiri in the 1920s to farm #cocoa. My grandfather died on his cocoa farm in 1947. Cocoa paid for mother’s upbringing. So the recent producer price cut is not only analytical to me — it is personal. Behind cocoa debates are real families.

Ivorian farmers are being forced to store unsold cocoa beans in their homes and accept low prices for their harvest as demand slumps and prices fall reut.rs/4avEXyA

🇬🇭#Ghana's #cocoa producer price cut needs context. With ~530k tons reportedly purchased before the review, the implied season-average price is ~GHS54,938/ton—an effective drop of ~5.3% relative to Oct 2025 price, not the ~28.6% headline figure. Context matters in policy debates.

🇬🇭 When every policy issue in #Ghana becomes partisan, serious national discussion suffers. Academics must resist being drawn into political camps. If one wants to do partisan politics, that is fine — but scholarship must remain objective. @UnivofGh @KNUSTGH @UCCGH_Official

Every election cycle promises a break from #corruption. The data suggest otherwise. Perceived corruption levels in Ghana look remarkably similar across regimes, raising a harder question: is the problem #political leadership, or deeper #institutions? @OfficialNDCGh @nppghanahq

🇬🇭The #JoyNews Hotline documentary, “A Tax for #Galamsey,” reaffirms my conclusion following our field visits: state policing alone will not solve #galamsey, because enforcement itself has become embedded within the mining economy. @JoyNewsOnTV youtube.com/watch?v=vhfxnm…

@ClubEarl @my_berko You mean Nkrumah was in exile in 1964? And did you say a Commission of Enquiry was set up in 1964 about Nkrumah's properties? Could this be true and reliable? When was Nkrumah overthrown?

@my_berko He was in exile.

Properties Nkrumah owned at the time of his overthrow.