Useless Column: ‘Marry Tomorrow’

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Despite accounting for more than 90% of registered businesses in Ghana, providing approximately 80% of employment, and contributing 70% to gross domestic product (GDP), small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) continue to experience high failure rates.

The recent approval of the revised Market Premium for Senior Members in Ghana's public universities has generated deep concern among Administrators and Professional Staff represented by the Ghana Association of University Administrators (GAUA), Technical University Senior Administrators Association of Ghana (TUSAAG) and other analogous professional groups.

ABSTRACT Revenue mobilisation is central to Ghana’s development agenda. Despite a robust legal framework anchored in the 1992 Constitution, the Income Tax Act, 2015 (Act 896) and the Revenue Administration Act, 2016 (Act 915), Ghana continues to experience significant revenue leakages.

“Without a leader, black ants are confused.” – African proverb

There are moments in a nation's economic life when leadership is measured by the necessity of bold decisions.

The Ghana Revenue Authority's recent disclosure that it has identified an estimated GH¢31 billion gap between foreign exchange transfers and the value of actual imports into Ghana over the past five years should provoke serious reflection among policymakers, regulators, financial institutions,

Africa’s emerging trade order will be judged not only by agreements signed, borders modernised and industrial parks constructed, but also by whether women can produce, finance, transport and sell goods across the continent.