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China’s Outward Foreign Direct Investment in Africa: How are Ghana Benefiting 
and its Issues on the Economy? 

 
Yeboah Evans1     

Agyeiwaah Vivian Antwi2 
 

 
( Corresponding Author) 

1,2Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China. 

 

 
Abstract 

As more nations continue to embrace foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow to enhance economic 
development, China has increased its outward foreign direct investment on the African continent 
of which most countries have benefited from it with Ghana not an exemption. To investigate 
whether China is contributing significantly to the number of projects by foreign investors over 
the years, the total number of FDI registered projects by the top investing countries within the 
Ghanaian economy were considered. This paper makes use of quantitative analysis through a 
descriptive statistical approach based on the data generated from the Ghana Investment 
Promotion Centre (GIPC) between 2013 and 2018. It was revealed that, China’s contribution to 
the total number of FDI registered projects is very significant, but the estimated cost of these 
Chinese projects is lower. However, Chinese investment is mostly found in the manufacturing 
sector of the Ghana’s economy.  It is suggested that, as the government prepares to roll out on the 
one-direct-one factory initiative, sound investment policies should be established to protect these 
infant industries and promote outward FDI. 

 
Keywords: FDI, Economy, Projects, Ghana, Cost, China. 

 
Citation | Yeboah Evans; Agyeiwaah Vivian Antwi (2019). China’s 
Outward Foreign Direct Investment in Africa: How are Ghana 
Benefiting and its Issues on the Economy? Economy, 6(1): 34-40. 
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Contents 
1. Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 35 
2. Technical Assistance ....................................................................................................................................................................... 35 
3. Development Assistance ................................................................................................................................................................. 35 
4. Investment Motive ........................................................................................................................................................................... 35 
5. Contradictions beyond Investment Motives .............................................................................................................................. 36 
6. Challenges Pose with China’s Presence in Ghana ..................................................................................................................... 37 
7. Literature Review ............................................................................................................................................................................ 37 
8. Data and Methodology ................................................................................................................................................................... 38 
9. Registered Chinese Projects in Ghana ........................................................................................................................................ 38 
10. Discussions ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 39 
11. Conclusion ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 39 
References .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 39 
 

 

 

 

 

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Contribution of this paper to the literature 
This study contributes to existing literature by investigating whether China is contributing 
significantly to the number of projects by foreign investors over the years; the total numbers of 
FDI registered projects by the top investing countries within the Ghanaian economy were 
considered. 

 
1. Introduction 

China’s outward foreign direct investment on the African continent has grown massively over the past years. 
In 2003, China’s total OFDI to Africa stood at US$74.8 million (Claassen et al., 2012). As foreign direct investment 
outshines foreign aid, China still provides most nations with aids which comes in the forms of providing most rural 
areas and villages access to potable water in Africa. China’s foreign aid to Ghana cuts across infrastructural 
development, education and agriculture, cooperation in infrastructural development appears to have been more 
welcomed by Ghana due to Ghana’s estimated $2.5 billion infrastructure deficit in financing (Davies et al., 2008). 
The official discretionary ties between Ghana and China has been portrayed by regular level of visits, 
cultural/educational exchanges, economic cooperation and development aids provisions. The majority of African 
countries provided significant support for China before its economic reform began in 1979. These ranges from the 
Congolese donating a huge amount of money in building a school in a rural community under the Shanghai 
municipality as well as many African leaders cast their vote to help China’s membership under the United Nations 
General Assembly. In the early 2000s, China has brought forth many initiatives and policies to strengthen its 
cooperation with Africa. There has been a massive and continuous movement of Chinese investment and companies 
in African countries, especially in the area of raw materials extraction ,such as mining and textiles, oil and gas, and 
infrastructure development (Broadman, 2007). Ghana has benefited significantly from China’s outward foreign 
direct investment which ranges from trade-investment, technical and development assistance. Currently China has 
the highest number of foreign direct investment registered projects among the other investing nations in the 
Ghanaian economy. During the during the first (1th) quarter of 2012, the center reordered a total of 95 new projects 
registered with a total estimated value of $1.18billion, the estimated value represented an increase of 212.35% 
compared to the value recorded in the same quarter of 2011 (Ghana Investment Promotion Centre, 2012). China 
topped the top ten (10) investing countries in Ghana with 12 new registered projects in the fourth quarter of 2012. 
This paper is targeted on both positive and negative influences of Chinese investment in Ghana.  
 

2. Technical Assistance 
The various public sectors have enjoyed some advantages as an outcome of Chinese investment in the 

Ghanaian economy. These benefits range from fisheries, education, training, communication, energy and 
agriculture. Under the education benefits are wide range of scholarship offers to Ghanaians and other countries in 
Africa to study in China from bachelors to the PHD level. Example of scholarships enjoyed by Ghanaians are 
Chinese government Scholarship, Municipal and local government, and University scholarships. Ghanaians and 
countries on the African continent do not benefit from the One Belt One Road initiative scholarship as it is 
purposely for countries part of this initiative. However, other educational exchange programs for technical 
assistance cut across personnel, equipment and training which aids in the improvement of various sectors in Ghana. 
Bui Hydro-electric power dam projects in the energy sector and support for irrigation farming, which includes 
Afire rice project in the Volta region are some of the projects under technical cooperation between China and 
Ghana. The National Communications Backbone Network Project was the recipient of a USD 32 million financing 
package to finance phase one of the project in 2007, which aims to link the various regional capitals and other 
major towns with telecommunications access (ACET, 2009). 
 

3. Development Assistance 
Ghana’s economic growth recorded over the past two decades has been among the strongest in Africa at 

around 4.5 per cent annually and growth accelerated to about 5.3 per cent in 2000-03, rose further to 5.8 per cent 
in 2004 and to an estimated 5.9 per cent in 2005 (OECD, 2006). However, there was a serious economic crisis in 
2016, but as a result of good economic fundamentals and sound policies, the economy of Ghana attained a massive 
growth in 2017. Loans and investment from China has been a substantial factor in the development of the country. 
Major notable completed public sector projects with Chinese aid in building and construction sector entails: US$15 
million office complex building for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, US$622 million 
development of the Bui Hydro-Electric power dam, US$ 28 million constructions of 17km Ofankor-Nsawam road 
network, and US$ 6 billion Ghana Railway Project (Kwasi and Li, 2016). Bauxite barter agreement between China 
and Ghana of US$ 2billon to build the country’s infrastructure with bauxite. The agreement among others, will 
fund infrastructure projects in Ghana, including roads, bridges, interchange, hospitals, housing, railway 
development as well as rural electrification1. 
 

4. Investment Motive 
For multinational companies, the ultimate aim and common encouragement to invest in other countries is 

maximizing output. Using the typology of foreign direct investment which was developed by Jere Behrman to 
explain the different motives of FDI under OLI theory. There were four objectives of FDI, which includes resource 
seeking, market seeking, efficiency seeking and strategic asset/capabilities seeking. Resource seeking investment 
happens rapidly when there is an insufficient capital base to develop a vast stock of resources or when there is a 
shortage of skilled labor and professional knowledge (UNCTAD, 1998). Multinational companies, individuals and 
governments invest in other nations for the purpose of seeking and securing natural resources such minerals (Gold, 
diamond, bauxite, aluminum etc.), raw materials and cheaper labor cost. With the abundance of natural resources 

                                                             
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and availability of skilled and unskilled labor, investors turn to exploit these resources with the intention of re-
exporting to the parent country or for the host country’s consumption. China and other developed countries are 
investing heavily on the African continent and in Ghana for the access to these resources. 

Market seeking has become one of the ultimate motive investors consider when investing abroad. Population 
size, income and the purchasing power of the people are taken into account. The special regions on the African 
continent are often used as a medium of getting access to other market within these zones. Chinese investors in 
Ghana can gain access to the West Africa sub-region common market as an outcome of Ghana being a member of 
the Economic Community of West African States. However, as more and more Ghanaians developing a special 
taste and preference for a commodity or a product induce investors to establish a subsidiary company abroad for its 
consumers. With the majority of the People developing much interest in made in China phones and other 
manufactured products have influenced many Chinese companies investing in the Ghanaian economy. 

Efficiency seeking, most investors consider the ultimate ways of becoming more productive. The restructuring 
of its already existing investment in order to attain an efficient allocation of global economic activities of 
companies. The motive brings about global specialization whereby organizations and firms seek to gain from the 
difference in product and factor price variegate risk. The intention of the efficiency-seeking MNE is to take 
advantage of different factor endowments, cultures, institutional arrangements, economic systems and policies, and 
market structures by concentrating production in a limited number of locations to supply multiple markets 
(Dunning, 1993).  

Strategic asset/capabilities seeking, this where investors such as multinational firms pursue the agenda of 
strategic operations for the acquisition of existing companies or assets so as to protect specific superiority with the 
aim of advancing its international competitive posture. These acquisitions can be of some key domestic established 
firms, local capabilities (R&D, knowledge and human capital), market knowledge and pre empting market entry by 
competitors. 
 

5. Contradictions beyond Investment Motives 
As many developed economies turn to influence most developing nations and least developed countries, several 

funds and development projects are packaged in the form of foreign direct investment. Initially, China’s major 
trading partners were the United States and the European Union, but during this era, there has been a new sense of 
direction of which China is investing heavily in Africa. According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and 
Development (UNCTAD) world investment report in 2017 indicated that, the United States, United Kingdom and 
France remain the top three investors economies by FDI stock in Africa. However, China is ranked as the top four 
investing nations and, between 2010 and 2015 the percentage change in the rate at which the top three (3) 
investing countries investment were growing in terms of value weighed lower than the Chinese. The value of 
Chinese investment increased at the rate of 269.2 percent between 2010 and 2015. With regards to the recent ways 
of investment by countries goes beyond the normal investment motives.  China’s investment on the African 
continent has been focused mostly on mineral deposits. For instance, China is investing in minerals in countries 
like Zimbabwe, Zambia and Ghana. Ghana recently agreed on a barter agreement on bauxite with China for 
infrastructural development projects. Conversely, some of the motives which could go beyond the proposed FDI 
motives by Dunning and other researches includes political influence, gaining domination over developing and 
least developed countries, and over exploitation of natural resources.  

Political influence happens when one country can exert pressure on another country to control its decisions. As 
many nations develop bilateral relationships among each other for economic and security benefits. However, 
nations also form allies for protection purpose and security threats. Foreign investing countries, international 
financial institutions, donor’s clubs and international monetary fund (IMF) do exercise influence on the least 
developed and developing countries economic and development decisions which affect the distribution and 
allocation of certain vital FDI projects within their economies. Apparently, China also do exercise some political 
pressure through its outward foreign direct investment in Africa. China recently started building military base in 
some African countries.  

Conversely, the over dependence of most African nations on foreign direct investment inflows without pursing 
outward foreign direct investment turn to give them less advantages on the other continent. Through FDI many 
developed economies turn to manipulate most African leaders. As a result of many FDI packages coming in the 
form of loans, these investing nations applied strict conditions attached, whereas most African leaders end up not 
being able to fulfil the terms and conditions involved. Considering the mining sector of Ghana, almost all the 
mining companies are foreign owned businesses. Ghana’s percentage share from gold mines is way lower than its 
supposed to enjoy as the ownership of these mineral resources and the same applies to the crude oil being drill on 
the Jubilee field. There is a notion that, many African leaders fear of not getting loans from the developed 
countries, China and India if they fail to comply and conform to their rules.  According to Mr. Di Maio, “France is 
one of those countries that by printing money for 14 African states prevents their economic development and 
contributes to the fact that refugees leave and die in the sea or arrive on our coast”2  

Gaining domination, the hypothetical power formation which attained or desired to, of which a strong single 
political hegemony posses power over some countries across the globe. The political fiction, where it postulates 
that some group of people or nations have achieved this objective in a secret way. This domination is currently 
happening on the African continent as most developed countries such as the United States of America, France, 
Germany, the United Kingdom etc.as well as developing nations such as China and India expanding their 
authorities in many countries in Africa who have become subservient to it. As technology becomes a new set of 
modern development in the world turns to induce many countries in Africa to embark on a technological 
advancement in their various economies. Today no technological hindrance persists in the path of a global empire 
as modern technology has made it possible to extend the control of mind and actions to every corner of the globe 
regardless of geography and climate changes (Alfred, 1967). During the early 17th century, Sir Walter Raleigh 

                                                             
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came out with a proposal that world domination could be attained through control of the ocean, stating that 
“whosoever command the sea commands the trade: whosoever commands the trade of the world command riches of 
the world, and consequently the world itself (Sir, 1829). Conversely, China is controlling the world through its 
exports of manufactured products and technology, thereby commanding riches from its trading partners. As part of 
the major world leading economies such as China and the US motives to control the world economy through FDI, 
international trade and determining global market prices of certain vital commodities turns to affect many least 
developed and some developing nations. Over dependence on the US dollar affects import and export by most 
businessmen and women in Africa. 

 Over exploitation of natural resources, a major factor for African countries to achieve a great benefit from FDI 
inflows is as a result of the abundance of its natural resources. One main favored position of numerous African 
nations for drawing in FDI is their natural resources (Unctad, 2007). An exploitation of natural resources 
contributes significantly to a country’s economic and development. However, over exploitation of these resources 
come with many adverse impacts on an economy. With the recent aggressiveness of many Chinese in Ghana in 
search of gold has led to several illegal mining activities. This illegal gold mining has resulted in major 
environmental issues such as changing of productive land into mining zones, pollution of air, water and land, and 
degradation of fertile soils which affect ecology and climate.  
 

6. Challenges Pose with China’s Presence in Ghana 
There are negative effects which comes along with the inflow of foreign direct investment from China. Loans 

from China to Ghana comes with conditions attached which in the short run have a constructive outcome for the 
administration of Ghana and a negative effect over the long run. The Beijing Summit in 2006 increased the 
interaction between China and Africa even further, as the both sides agreed to accelerate cooperation, especially in 
seam resources examination and utilization. As indicated by the Ghanaian government projections of oil costs, 
Ghana with end up paying US$ 6.4 billion to China for the US$ 3 billion credit, or should give away 750 million 
barrels of the nation’s raw petroleum to a Chinese company for more than 15 years. Consequently, the development 
and technical assistance as in the form of investment also comes with conditions attached to them, thereby raising 
concerns about how to refinance these loans in a profitable way without societal costs in the long run (Joseph, 
2015). Another example of an investment with major conditions attached is the dam funding deal, where natural 
resources such as cocoa will be used to pay for the cost of credit (Reuters, 2007). Conversely, like other African 
countries such as South Africa and Nigeria, Ghana’s manufacturing sector is missing out on the opportunities for 
trade with China. Because of increasing Chinese business and investment with majority shareholder control, the 
industrial sector is being challenged by the continuous and rising import of manufactured goods (Joseph, 2015).   
The relationship between China and the African continent through China-Africa cooperation has ultimately 
received many criticisms from international observers.  China’s foreign policies in the direction of African nations 
of weakening universal struggles to expand transparency and quality governance. The Chinese’s contribution to 
illegal mining , which is locally known as galamsey has been a major challenge facing Ghana government. The 
minister of information, Mustapha Hamid in an interaction with the Chinese ambassador warned that all Chinese 
nationals will be severely punished by the law should they be found linked to the menace of illegal small scale 
mining3. 
 

7. Literature Review 
There have been numerous studies done by many research on the account of China’s outward foreign direct 

investment in Africa and other part of the world using diversified approaches attaining different outcomes. 
However, only a few researchers have focused on Chinese investment in Ghana. This literature review is set to 
explore the major research works done on China’s investment specifically to Ghana. Kwasi and Li (2016) 
Considering China’s contribution to the development process in Ghana through foreign direct investment, 
provision of financial aids has increased management training skills, and the transfer of innovation and 
technological strategies. The authors examined the linked between China’s foreign direct investment and Ghana’s 
building and construction sector performance, by using the robust regression model and the outcome show that 
Chinese foreign direct investment in the building and construction sector of Ghana has a relevant positive effect on 
economic growth of Ghana as a result of a strong expansion of investors dauntless in Ghana’s economy.  

Joseph (2015) Chinese investment in Ghana, using the Investment Development Path (IDP) theory introduced 
by Dunning in 1981 to examine the basis of the Chinese Investment model , of which the author sheds light China’s 
investment in Ghana after 2008 and the performance these investments so as briefly examines the specifics of 
Chinese investment in Ghana.   

Samuel and Nubuor (2013) a research on Chinese investment in Ghana, stating that Paris Club of donors and 
the international financial institutions do exert political pressure on African government for political and economic 
reforms, although such vigorous economic and financial cannot avoid having political repercussions whereas China 
exercise no political pressure on African countries. However, the author revealed that Ghana is not an exemption 
and hence China continues to invest in Ghana and help in the country’s economic development. 

Decai and Gyasi (2012) Ghana identifying foreign direct investment as a key way to transform its economic 
growth and as China seeking to offer Ghana a new model for developing alternative to the western style that 
depends on commercial relations and fair market.  The focused on the impact of China Foreign Direct Investment 
(FDI) flows on the Ghanaian employment sector using a statistical descriptive method which supports the analysis 
of the influence of FDI inflow in a quantitative way. The result indicated that, about 80% or more of investments 
from China has been mostly concentrated in the manufacturing, building & construction and general trade sectors 
of the economy of Ghana between 2006 and 2010. 

Kojo (2013) examining the specificities of Chinese agricultural investments in Ghana in relation to wider 
investments and Chinese interests in the country. As China has rapidly emerged as the largest trading and 

                                                             
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investment partner in Africa and the structure of its trade reflects the emergence of a highly sophisticated 
manufacturing economy which imports raw minerals, energy and primary agricultural commodities and exports 
manufactured goods, machinery, information and communication technologies, and construction. Chinese 
investments within African countries have expanded rapidly, enabling African nation states to begin to develop the 
beginnings of a modern infrastructure that should attract more investments. 

Kwasi and Li (2017) Foreign direct investment showing a positive influence on national economic growth and 
advancement, examining the FDI Inflow in Ghana and the contribution of the Selected Countries observed FDI 
inflows between 2000 and 2014. Comparing the quantitative study using China, US, India and South Africa showed 
that the selected countries contributed more to the agriculture, manufacturing, building/construction, and service 
sectors of Ghana in terms of volumes of investments and projects as compared to other sectors of the economy due 
to incentives attached to prioritized economic sectors.  

Many studies of China outward FDI in Ghana failed to outline the yearly number of projects by the Chinese in 
the Ghanaian economy. However, there is always a positive conclusion China’s presence in Ghana by most authors 
without hammering on the negative aspect of Chinese investment in Ghana. I believe that considering both the 
negative and positive help to weigh the significance of the FDI component in Ghana. 
 

8. Data and Methodology  
This paper is being focused on the examination of Chinese foreign direct investment inflow into Ghana’s 

economy. The paper makes use of the quantitative analysis through a descriptive statistical approach. Since China’s 
FDI forms part of the overall FDI in Ghana which goes into all the various sectors of the Ghanaian economy. By 
considering the total number of registered projects recorded through FDI between 2013 and 2018. I separated the 
number of Chinese foreign direct investment from the overall registered projects established by foreign investing 
nations. The value (the estimated cost of projects) was also taken into account. The study also makes use of data 
from the quarterly investment reports generated from the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre the sole 
organization formed by the government mandated to regulate, promote and foster investment inflows and the well-
being of investors.  
 

9. Registered Chinese Projects in Ghana 
From 1994 September to December 2009 the total registered projects from foreign countries was 3,214.  Out 

of the 3214 China had the largest registered projects in Ghana with a total 415. However, these Chinese registered 
projects were distributed among all the sectors in the Ghanaian economy. Agriculture 8, building and construction 
20 projects, export trade 7 projects, general trading 103 projects, Liaison 7 projects, manufacturing 145 projects, 
service 66 projects and tourism 59 projects. However, there have been 182 registered projects by the Chinese in the 
Ghanaian economy from 2013 to 2018. Conversely, a total of 1,311 foreign direct investment projects were 
registered between 2013 and 2018 of which 418 projects were recorded in 2013, 183 projects in 2014, 170 projects 
in 2015, 180 projects in 2016, 192 and 168 projects in 2017 and 2018 respectively. The Table 1 shows breakdown 
of the registered projects.  
 

Table-1. Chinese registered projects between 2013 and 2018. 

Year Number of projects Cost of projects (US$M) 

2013 34 41.91 
2014 15 1,609.92 
2015 22 172.2 
2016 36 301.52 
2017 38 232.93 
2018 37 159.3 
Total 182 2,517.78 

                                 Source: Author’s calculations base on the data from GIPC. 

 
From the Table 1 the data collection were based on the quarterly reports by the Ghana Investment Promotion 

Centre. However, there was no data for registered projects by China and the estimated cost of projects in the third 
quarter of 2013 whereas there were no records on the number of registered projects for the second quarter of 2014. 
China registered one project in the second quarter of 2015 but there was no record on the estimated cost of the 
project as it was not captured by the GIPC as it was not ranked among top ten (10) investment cost of projects. 
 

 
Figure-1: China’s registered projects verses total number of registered projects. 

                               Source: Author’s calculations base on the data from GIPC. 

 



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The total estimated cost of the total foreign direct investment registered projects between 2013 and 2018 
amounted to US$19,930.03 million of which the breakdown was as follows 4,261.22million in 2013, US$3,121.45 
million in 2014, US$2,680.60 million in 2015, US$ 2,433.50 million in 2016, US$3,562.50million in 2017 and 
US$2,870.76million in 2018. China’s cost of registered projects percentage, share on the yearly accumulated total 
cost of projects are as follow 0.98% in 2013, 51.57% in 2014, 6.42% in 2015, 12.39% in 2016, 6.53% in 2017 and 
5.55% in 2018. The Figure 2 indicates total cost of projects, verses cost of China’s registered projects. 
 

 
Figure-2. FDI total cost of projects verses cost of China’s registered projects. 

                                      Source: Author’s calculations base on the data from GIPC. 

 

10. Discussions 
Ghana’s investment environment has been very conducive for Chinese investment and other top investing 

countries. The effect and implication of China-Ghana trade and investment are diverse. Employment of skilled and 
unskilled workforce has been an ultimate significant factor when considering the investment environment in 
Ghana. Experts and technology transfer has been readily available to the various sectors of the Ghanaian economy 
to employ experienced workers. On the other hand, it is clear that the number of registered foreign direct 
investment projects in Ghana by the Chinese is significantly lower than the amount Ghana’s outward foreign direct 
investment in China. Ghana and most African countries are faced with international trade deficits and are not 
benefiting from slang break of trading with China. Major Chinese investment are found in the manufacturing 
sector of the Ghanaian economy which turns to increase a stiff competition from giant Chinese manufacturing 
companies. Ghana export raw materials to China and imports over 60% of manufactured product China. With 
Ghana’s exportation mainly being raw materials and other resources turns to put its economy at risk. The 
commodity price shock of 1999 is a clear example – between 1998 and 2000, a fall in world commodity prices 
affected the economy with a negative 20% drop in Ghana’s GDP growth rate (IMF, 2012). However, with the 
current government agenda of one-district-one factory initiative which aims at transforming Ghana’s economy into 
an industrial economy should set out policies and regulations to protect these infant industries in all the sectors.  
 

11. Conclusion 
Regardless of external and internal factors affecting foreign direct investment inflows in Ghana, Ghana 

continue to provides sound business and investment-friendly environment for both domestic and foreign 
investment of which Chinese investors do benefit from it. Foreign direct investment inflows in Ghana has been 
growing significantly every year as Ghana reached the major recipient of FDI ahead of Nigeria in 2018. The 
investment motives which is set to be achieved by foreign investors should be a major concern by the host 
countries on the African continent as there might be a hiding agenda beyond the normal investment motives. 
Objective which focuses on Chinese foreign direct investment, its benefit and issues on Ghana’s economy was 
achieved after considering China’s contribution to the registered projects and other wide range of development 
packages to Ghana. This may not be adequate to capture the number of employments and impact of the third 
quarter of 2013, second quarter of 2014. However, Ghana’s longstanding bilateral relationship in the aspect of 
investment and trade in recent year has brought many developments to both nations. 
 

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