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High cost of utility still a challenge for businesses - AGI
The fourth quarter of the AGI’s 2016 business barometer report indicated that 70% of the respondents were confident business will improve in 2017.
President of AGI; James Asare Adjei
This was contained in the fourth quarter of the AGI’s 2016 business barometer report.
The report stated that the high cost of credit, the multiplicity of taxes and cedi depreciation were the biggest challenges faced by businesses in the country.
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The report revealed that 70% of businesses surveyed were confident business will improve.
This is an increase from the 57% recorded on the same issue in the third quarter of 2016.
However 26% of respondents expect business confidence to remain the same. This is a decline from 37% in the previous quarter.
Similarly, businesses who expected confidence to be worse than normal, dropped, from 6.2 to 3%.
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The report, therefore, indicates that business confidence is beginning to rise, from 99.0 in the third quarter to 101.6 points in the fourth quarter of 2016.
Meanwhile about 10% more of employers who responded to the questionnaires are likely to hire more by the end of March 2017.
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Many businesses have very high expectations of the Nana Addo-led government. Most of them expect the new government to reduce in taxes and cost of utility as well as the create a business friendly environment so they can thrive.
Most businesses are hopeful the government will do all within its power to improve the economic situation for a business-friendly environment.
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