Business Associations
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Ghana National Chamber of Commerce
www.ghanachamber.org
Association of Ghana Industries (AGI)
www.agighana.org,
set
up in 1958, is the leading business organisation in Ghana. It serves as a
mouthpiece for the manufacturing and services sector and carries out
proactive support services with the view to contribute substantially to the
growth and development of industry in Ghana
Federation of Associations of Ghanaian
Exporters (FAGE)
www.ghana-exporter.org
Business Development Organizations
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Ghana
Export Promotion Councils (GEPC)
www.exportghana.org
Ghana
Trade Fair Company Limited
National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI
Support Programme for Enterprise Empowerment and Development (SPEED Ghana)
www.speedghana.org
Business Sector Advocacy Challenge (BUSAC)
Fund
www.busac.org is a
project funded by Danish DANIDA, DFID (UK) and USAID to strenghten advocacy
capacity of the Ghanaian Private Sector, through its associations and
unions.
Ghana
Association of Consultants
www.ghanaconsultants.org
Small Business Services (SBS) Network of
Ghanaian Business Consultants
www.ghanabusiness.org/sbs
Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC)
www.gipc.org.gh
Ghana National Procurement Agency
www.gnpa-ghana.com
Administration
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Ghana Government www.ghana.gov.org
Internal Revenue Service
www.irs.gov.gh
All about taxation on Ghana
Ghana Customs Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS)
www.cepsghana.org
Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority
www.ghanaports.net
Financial Institutions
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Ghana Association of Bankers. Network of
Commercial Banks
ARB APEX Bank Limited. Network of Rural Banks
http://arbapexbank.com/
GHAMFIN Ghana Micro Finance Institutions
Network
www.ghamfin.org
Business Web sites
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Business and Financial Times Newspaper
www.businessandfiancialtimes.net
Ghana Weekend Newspaper
www.ghanaweekend.org
Yellow Pages Ghana www.yellowpages.gh
www.ghanadata.com
www.ghanaweb.com
Legal Practitioners and Notaries Public
www.belonline.org
Business Plan
Competition, Ghana
www.believe-begin-become.com
International Business Development related Web sites
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Business Development Services (BDS) Forum
www.bds-forum.net is a new
website edited by Dieter Gagel, freelance consultant, promoting a moderate
BDS approach including commercial BDS providers as well as NGOs,
self-help-organizations and public providers. The website gives a lot of
examples of BDS interventions in industrial clusters, with business
start-ups, with Chambers of Commerce, sector-specific BDS interventions and
BDS in value chain development. Handbooks on marketing, start your business,
import-export, trade fairs, business planning, bookkeeping and cost
calculation and capacity building of business associations are available for
download. Links to Ghanaian, Tunisian, Ethiopian, Malian, Guinean BDS
portals.
EU
Trade Promotion Website
http://export-help-cec.eu.int
The European Union (EU) launched a online helpdesk to provide information on
exporting products to the European markets. The web site contains custom
duties, customs documentation, rule of origin, and trade statistics about EU
markets.
International Trade Centre
http://www.intracen.org/default.htm
is the technical cooperation agency of the United Nations Conference on
Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
and the World Trade Organization (WTO)
for operational, enterprise-oriented aspects of trade development. ITC
supports developing and transition economies, and particularly their
business sector, in their efforts to realize their full potential for
developing exports and improving import operations.
ITC works in six areas:
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Product and market development
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Development of trade support services
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Trade information
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Human resource development
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International purchasing and supply management
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Needs assessment, programme design for trade promotion
World
Bank / IFC “Doing Business”
www.doingbusiness.org
Statistics of 151 countries including business registration, taxation,
licensing
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