…Leveraging technology to create inclusive and sustainable jobs
The 2023 edition of the annual tech job fair was held at the Accra International Conference Centre, Wednesday 22nd February 2023. The fair drew over 2500 participants, with 1926 attending in person and others participating remotely via Zoom and Facebook to learn,...
Saturday 7th January 2023 marked 30 years of the Fourth Republican Parliament of Ghana’s inception, after eleven years of military rule and promulgation of the 1992 Constitution.
This marks 30 years of uninterrupted parliamentary democracy, which started on January 7, 1993. The journey for a return to parliamentary democracy started...
I travelled recently from Amsterdam to Accra with KLM. It was a big aeroplane with lots of passengers; clients with multiple demands and requests, inappropriately packed luggage and parents with crying children. In addition, passengers who boarded the plane late were impatient, nervous and stressed, whereas some early go...
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has decided, unanimously, to remove Morocco from the grey list during the FATF General Assembly held in Paris on February 20-24, 2023, the Department of the Head of Government announced on Friday.
“The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) decided unanimously to remove the Kingdom...
Ghana International Bank (GHIB), a wholly-Ghanaian bank incorporated in the United Kingdom, has facilitated a trade finance training programme for over 60 bankers from across six West African countries.
The four-day trade finance training seminar in Ghana focused on various international trade finance products that banks can use in serving...
Guaranty Trust Bank (Ghana) Ltd. has donated medical equipment to the Paediatric Oncology Unit of the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, located at North Ridge. The gesture is part of its Corporate Social Responsibility in support of quality healthcare delivery in the country.
The Paediatric Oncology unit provides high-dependency care for...
…the case for consolidating private sector support in economic development
The private sector’s role is increasingly relevant as regards the global adaptation and economic sustainability debate. The term ‘private sector’ includes a highly diverse group of actors and activities operating at international, national and local levels. It includes everything from...
Heritors Labs Limited, a Web 3.0 company and a hub for research and innovation services, hosted a two-day training workshop to build entrepreneurship capacity and increase the participation of women, young people, and people with disabilities in the research and innovation commercialisation value chain. The event, dubbed "Levelling Up...
Incontestably, many businesses – small and big have collapsed or are facing imminent closures due to the effects of the current global economic crisis. At the local level, the crisis has resulted in high operational costs reflected in high-interest rates for loans/credits, the rising cost of raw materials, hyperinflation,...
A study by the World Bank has revealed that MSMEs constitute about 90% of all jobs in Ghana, and contribute approximately 40% to the nation’s GDP. Yet the subsector is the least recipient of financing financial institutions in the country, particularly the commercial banks. A careful study of the...