Reducing barriers to women’s economic empowerment is the fastest way to accelerate economic growth, especially in the Ghanaian context where a large number of women are engaged in key activities like agriculture, Heather Cameron, Canadian High Commissioner to Ghana, has observed. She said, addressing the constraints to women’s economic empowerment...
Côte d’Ivoire’s membership in ATI is seen as an integral part of the government’s strategy to attract more investments and to diversify the economy through increased trade and investment opportunities The African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI) has announced  that Côte d’Ivoire has joined a growing list of African countries who...
Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, President and Chief Executive Officer of Groupe Nduom (GN) has announced that GN is ready to lead rice revolution in Ghana in the next five years to ensure that importation of rice is brought to the barest minimum. In total, he said it will take about...
The Hungarian Embassy in Ghana is organising its maiden “Hungarian Cultural Week” at the Kempinski Gold Coast City Hotel in Accra, as part of efforts to promote the country’s rich traditions and culture. The week-long celebration will be marked along three key pillars of arts and cultural exhibition; a Ghana-Hungary...
Optimal Reserve Ratio (Gold Reserve / Foreign Reserve)-Targeting (30%) , in tandem with Inflation-Targeting  The present Government's Cedi stability policies are recycled from 2000 - 2008 (Pre - Global Financial Crisis), and inappropriate for today's global monetary environment (Quantitative Easing dilutes Ghana's Cash Reserves), and some negative nominal interest rates...
Enquiries made by the B&FT have established that the Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems (GhIPSS), can handle the intermediary role in across-network mobile money transactions, a multi-million-dollar job the central bank has outsourced to a private company. An insider source told the B&FT that what GhIPSS, a wholly owned...
Four-star hospitality facility, Best Western Premier Hotel, has organised a cocktail party for their key business partners as part of efforts to forge a lasting relations with them. The “Reservers Cocktail” event was also the hotel’s way of updating reservers about new innovations that have been deployed by management to...
Best Western Premier Hotel has been adjudged the best four-star hotel in the country by the Ghana Tourism Authority at the 10th Ghana Tourism Awards held in Accra. The sprawling hospitality facility beat stiff competition to scoop the coveted award on the back of winning the award for the same...