NHIS in 2026: How Many Ghanaians Are Actually Covered and What Does It Actually Pay For?
Key Findings 1Ghana's NHIS had about 18.5 million active members in the last quarter of 2025, representing 56% of the total population. By early 2026, membership had grown to approximately 20 million, or roughly 60% of Ghanaians. The scheme was established in 2003 to end cash-and-carry healthcare. Twenty-three years later, four in ten Ghanaians are still outside it. 2NHIS covers…
Is Ghana’s Railway Network Adequate to Support Industrialization? Freight Economics, Network Adequacy, and Cross-Country Evidence
Abstract Railways moved the raw materials that built modern industrial economies, and this study asks a simple question about Ghana: is the network it has today big enough, and working well enough, to do the same job now? We built the study around five objectives set out below, using World Bank data, national rail authority records, peer-reviewed transport-economics research, and…
GH¢4.54 Trillion and Counting: How Mobile Money Became Africa’s Real Financial System
Key Findings 1Africa processed $1.43 trillion in mobile money transactions in 2025, 66% of the global total, across 92 billion separate transactions. Ghana alone moved GH¢4.54 trillion through mobile money in 2025, a 50.8% jump from the previous year. In December 2025, Ghana's mobile money volume in a single month was seven times larger than the country's entire banking electronic…
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NHIS in 2026: How Many Ghanaians Are Actually Covered and What Does It Actually Pay For?
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