The previous government, which Mahama convincingly defeated in the December elections, introduced the gold-for-oil programme as a strategy to counter currency fluctuations. Under this scheme, the ...

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El Salvador’s Bitcoin Law has undergone significant modifications, altering the country’s approach to Bitcoin as legal tender ...

Pakistan's annual inflation rate slowed to 1.5% in February, the lowest in nearly a decade and below the finance ministry's ...

Argentina's libertarian president Javier Milei signaled late Saturday that a new deal with the International Monetary Fund ...

Lebanon's new president has a 15-month window to make progress on reforms able to attract much-needed financial support, but ...

Ghana’s oil import bill was $4.5 billion in 2024. As of September, the Bank of Ghana had bought 65.4 tons of gold for its foreign reserves as well as for the execution of the barter program, with the ...

Highlights  Port authority says Tk1,225cr unpaid fees from Payra power plant for Rabnabad Channel maintenance The power plant says it spent Tk756.8 crore on dredging in 2019–2020, but the port ...

Then there was his crypto fixation. In 2021 El Salvador became the first country to make bitcoin legal tender, alongside the ...