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An Emerging Market for Outsourcing
•An advanced financial system comprised of a central bank (Bank of Ghana), eleven commercial banks, five merchant banks, and 100 small town unit banks.
•More than 2,500 cyber cafes and 100 firms companies that specialize in computer hardware supply and maintenance, software sales and support, software development, Internet services, and computer training.
•12 licensed, and three operational ISPs
•A national energy company with a fiber network looping the lower 90% of the country.
•A landing station for the undersea Africa-One fiber cable from South Africa to Portugal was built in 2002, positioning Ghana to dramatically reduce bandwidth costs, and become a regional access provider for West Africa.
•20 years of political stability, a constitutional democracy with an elected president and parliament
•GDP growth rate of approximately 5%, has privatized key industries and has a strong entrepreneurial infrastructure, including a stock exchange.
Ghana has…