The major goal of every insurance company is to be in a state of readiness to meet its liabilities in respect of the uncertain events insured. However, the events which have taken place in the past few months are clear indications that perhaps a number of insurance companies were...
Capemay Properties Limited, a luxury real-estate development company in Accra, Ghana, has launched its ‘Home at Home’ campaign to invite diasporans and foreign nationals with business interest in Ghana to invest in the motherland Ghana. A home is wherever you have a connection to - be it by birth,...
African sovereigns’ border closures and broader lockdown measures have significantly slowed small-scale trade across Africa, a crucial source of income and employment on the continent
Recovery will be slow and there is a risk of longer-term scarring from the crisis
Falling revenues from economic slowdown, spending on measures,...
Ghanaian pilot Eric Acquah started a drone company in 2017 to spray crops with pesticides, but when coronavirus hit the West African country he found a new mission - saving lives.
The company has used 20 drones to disinfect about 38 open-air markets in Ghana, spraying a couple of acres...
MTN has waived charges on the official programme website of the COVID-19 Recovery and Resilience (CoRe) programme, www.core.com.gh. This means users of the website will not pay any data charges while browsing all aspects of the platform.
The COVID-19 Recovery and Resilience (CoRe) programme was launched recently, and is an...
Africa is seeing coronavirus cases rapidly increasing and deaths rising, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). We've looked at the situation across the continent, and examined which countries are of most concern.
How fast is coronavirus spreading?
In terms of overall numbers, Africa currently accounts for only a small proportion...
Todaro & Smith (2006, p.811) define economic growth as “The steady process by which the productive capacity of the economy is increased over time to bring about rising levels of national output and income”.
Economic growth means an increase in an economy’s output of goods and services in a particular...
Mono-crop culture in modern agricultural terms is the emphasis of crop specialisation. This method of farming is particularly popular in industrialised regions.
However, though increasing yields are vital for having affordable food - particularly as the population is increasing, monoculture farming has some disadvantages you can’t ignore. The worlds long-term...