Building gold reserves, losing hospitals? – Finance professor flags 1% GDP cost

Associate Professor of Finance at Andrews University in the US, Prof William Kwasi Peprah, has warned that Ghana’s push to deepen its gold reserves could come at a steep social cost.


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