Ghana offers multiple lucrative business and investment
opportunities with large returns.
The following industries have been key and strategically important for the country and paving the way
for the development of Ghana.
With increased business and investment activities, these sectors have been gaining ground,
providing a robust and dynamic base for economic growth.
Ghana’s medium-term development framework pinpoints the critical and vital role that infrastructure development plays in propelling economic growth and sustainable poverty reduction.
The construction, real estate and housing sector in Ghana can produce stable revenue throughout the investment period.
Ghana is well-endowed with mineral resources with reserves of gold, manganese, bauxite, diamond and limestone among others.
The Jubilee Field, Ghana’s first oil discovery in commercial quantities, with an estimated field reserve of up to 1 billion barrels, went into production on 15 December 2010.
Ghana’s energy need is rapidly increasing as a result of the continuous economic and population growth. The energy infrastructure, both on production and transportation side, is under-developed that offers great opportunities for investment.
The government’s key strategic objective is to increase the country’s electricity production capacity to 5000 MW by 2016.
Manufacturing and industrial activities account for about 25.3% of the total GDP of Ghana. Due to the government’s industrialization policies and support, the country’s industrial production is rising at a rate of 7.8%.
Investment opportunities are available for investors to produce agricultural products for the local and international markets or to provide services related to irrigation, technology support, raw materials, like the supply of seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and other agricultural chemicals, and post-production.
Telecommunication and Information Technology sector in Ghana is progressing better than in other low-income countries, 1.1% above the average of the Sub-Saharan African region.
The financial services industry encompasses a broad range of organizations that deal with financial management activities in Ghana.
The sanitation and waste management sector has been gradually modernized through the introduction of private sector participation and decentralization of the rural management.
Education in Ghana is divided into three phases: basic, secondary and tertiary education.
The transport sector is made up mainly of road transport, maritime and water transport, civil aviation and rail.
As Ghana’s middle and upper classes are steadily growing there is an imminent boom in consumer spending that requires a range of services to meet the demand.
