{"id":181793,"date":"2025-09-25T23:36:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T23:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/181793\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T23:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T23:36:13","slug":"ghana-attracts-863-million-in-fdi-in-first-half-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/181793\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana attracts $863 million in FDI in first half of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/business\/Ghana-attracts-863-million-in-FDI-in-first-half-of-2025-GIPC-2002277?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/89226135.295.jpg\" alt=\"Simon Madjie is the CEO of GIPC\" title=\"Simon Madjie is the CEO of GIPC\" width=\"295\" height=\"207\" \/> <\/a>Simon Madjie is the CEO of GIPC<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Ghana surged in the first half of 2025 with a total of 76 registered projects valued at US$862.96 million.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to latest data released by the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC).<\/p>\n<p>The figure represents a 381.91 percent increase compared to the US$179.07 million recorded during the same period in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The manufacturing sector accounted for the highest number of projects at 32, while the general trading sector attracted the bulk of investment, with an estimated FDI value of US$622.92 million.<\/p>\n<p>According to GIPC, the 76 projects registered in the first half of the year are expected to generate about 4,707 jobs when they become fully operational.<\/p>\n<p>China emerged as the top source country by project numbers, registering 22, followed by India with 14. <\/p>\n<p>Nigeria ranked third with eight projects, while the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the United Kingdom each recorded four projects.<\/p>\n<p>The United States registered three projects, ranking sixth, while Liberia, Mauritius, Singapore, and Turkey all recorded two projects apiece.<\/p>\n<p>SP\/SA<\/p>\n<p>Watch the latest edition of BizTech below:<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Simon Madjie is the CEO of GIPC Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Ghana surged in the first half&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-181793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}