
AKA’s Environment Folder with Ama KUDOM-AGYEMANG: CSOs and farmers push for reforms in international cocoa producer pricing
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Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has reintroduced the government-funded free fertiliser and agro-input distribution programme for cocoa farmers, days after the regulator released GH¢2.6billion for Licenced Buying Companies (LBCs) to accelerate outstanding payments to them.
- Ghana ranks among the world’s leaders in financial regulation but has paid dearly for failing to ensure its professionals kept pace. The last failure alone cost an estimated GH¢16.4 billion.
A new statutory Authority and a GH¢110 million start-up budget give the government's flagship jobs programme legal teeth. But the gap between institutional architecture and 1.7 million promised jobs remains wide, and history offers little comfort.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has cautioned the public against investing in platforms operating under the names Yepbit Exchange and Bonchat, describing them as suspected fraudulent investment schemes that are not licensed to operate in Ghana.
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