The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has launched its beta version of the Bank of Ghana Database Portal.
A statement issued by the central bank informing the public of the launch said the move is aimed at providing a single environment for extracting and visualising macroeconomic data.
The BoG explained that the provision of the portal is in line with international best practices and the Bank’s commitment to greatertransparency associated with its inflation-targeting framework of monetary policy.
It further disclosed that the portal will also help meet data request demands from the general public and support research work.
It said the data contained in the portal is organised along five main economic sectors: the external sector, financial sector, fiscal sector, monetary sector, real sector, and survey-based indicators.
The macroeconomic data is made up of 255 monthly and 86 quarterly time series.data sourced from the BoG and other key stakeholder institutions, it added.
Data updates and revisions, the bank said, will be done according to the Data Release Calendar as published on the portal.
Below is the full statement from the BoG
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghama
