Government has officially unveiled the Ghana CARE Guarantee Scheme, a GH¢2 billion package to support businesses that have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The initiative, which falls under the GH¢100 billion Ghana CARES programme, provides guarantees for lending to SMEs that ultimately reduces the risk of lending for banks,...
expressPay Ghana Limited, a wholly owned Ghanaian financial technology company, has added a Quick Response (QR) Code called ‘myQR’ to its array of cashless payment services.
With the introduction of ‘myQR’, merchants now have an innovative way to ensure cashless transactions in times of heightened COVID-19 hygiene procedures. myQR is...
Executive Director of the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI), Kosi Yankey-Ayeh, has disclosed that her outfit is working to digitise 500 Micro, Small Medium Scale Business in the country to enable the businesses expand their operations locally and prepare for the international market.
“The need to digitise MSMEs in the...
As part of activities to climax Green Action Week Campaign 2020, CUTS Ghana, research, consumer protection and public policy think tank with support from Consumer International, has educated market women at Kasoa in the Central Region on innovative measures to reduce the amount of waste they generate at the...
…despite making up 92% of registered companies
PEF proposes tiered tax framework
New research has revealed that Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the country contribute a paltry 4 percent to domestic tax revenue despite making up about 92 percent of registered businesses, often due to complexities in the...
The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) is appealing to government to involve local assemblies in the construction of the One Village One Dam (1V1D) projects to make it effective.
The association is of the view that the constant involvement of politicians at the central level without the engagement of...
A new report by the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) has shown that smallholder farmers in the country are increasingly facing challenges in reaching various markets to sell their products.
The report titled “Smallholder Farmer Voices in Policy Discourse” engaged 99 peasant farmers in eight regions across the country....
Dr. Ernest Addison, Governor of the Central Bank and the Bank of Ghana have received global awards for their contribution to stabilizing the country’s financial sector.
The Governor was honoured by GlobalMarkets, a newspaper published digitally to cover the Virtual IMF/World Bank Annual Meeting 2020, as the Central Bank Governor...
An enhanced Information and Communication Technology (ICT) center to serve as Community Information Centre (CIC) under the e-governance project at Yendi in the Northern region has become a white elephant.
The CIC project constructed to ensure every community get access to ICT facilities across the country to enable the less privileged...
Edmond Kombat, Co-founder and Director of Administration & Research at the Institute for Energy Security (IES) has been selected to participate in the ‘Energy Transition – Germany’s Policy on Hydrogen’.
Mr. Edmond Kombat will represent the Institute for Energy Security (IES) as one of the selected organization among the three...
