About this report
- Author
- Dr. Felix Larry Essilfie
- Publisher
- Institute of Development and Economic Research (IDER)
- Publication date
- Evidence cut-off
- Reference period
- Recorded production: 2023–2024; accounts and trading: 2025; national and operational releases: 2026, by period.
- Series
- IDER’s Ghana Macroeconomic Policy and Business Intelligence Briefings
What the report covers
- Gold production, purchases, export values and foreign-exchange receipts, with source definitions and reconciliation checks.
- GoldBod and Bank of Ghana accounts, financing records and conditional gold-batch calculations.
- Public financial exposure, evidence limitations and proposed reconciliation and monitoring requirements.
Read the evidence in context
The report does not estimate a national causal production effect or consolidated public profit. Differences in source scope and unresolved accounting and export comparisons do not establish loss or misconduct; inter-public counterparty records are unavailable.
The report’s original source definitions, assumptions and limitations govern its interpretation. References to other institutions do not imply their endorsement.
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