GIPC And Brazilian Investment Agency Sign Agreement

The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) has entered into an agreement with the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency to mutually share information on investment. The agreement signed with Apex-Brasil in Accra, on the sidelines of the World Investment Forum, is aimed at promoting and enhancing a mutual exchange of information on investment environment, policies, and investment regulations and procedures. The two parties also undertook to establish key priority industrial sectors for a balanced attraction of investment to each other and to also identify targeted investors from each other’s country through the exchange of companies information and contacts for subsequent follow-ups. The agreement would also ensure the promotion of joint organisation of investment seminars, forums, fairs and convergences for the dissemination of information on economic and investment issues. Mr. Robert Ahomka-Lindsay, Chief Executive Officer of the GIPC signed on behalf of the Centre, while Mr Alessandro Teixeira, President of Apex-Brasil initialled for his Agency. The agreement enters into force with the signing and would remain in force for two years after which it will automatically expire.