By Eric Osei ANNOR
In today's dynamic business landscape, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly turning to digital tools to enhance their sales strategies and drive growth. With sustainability becoming a central focus across industries, integrating sustainable practices into digital sales initiatives is crucial for long-term success. By...
By Rashidatu IBRAHIM
The German Development Cooperation and International Labour Organisation (ILO) have signed a joint work plan to tackle underemployment, high youth unemployment and address bottlenecks in Ghana's informal sector.
The cooperation, according to Wilhelm Hugo, Coordinator-Sustainable Economic
Development Cluster at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), aims to better...
By Kwaku OFORI
The rhetoric surrounding the importance of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Africa is well-known. SMEs are often lauded as the backbone of economies, the engines of job creation, and crucial contributors to GDP.
However, translating this rhetoric into tangible, practical support remains a significant challenge. As Africa...
When the wrath of COVID-19 began to ravage world economies, take lives and alter our way of life, many thought it was just a temporal occurrence. Six months down the line, we are still keeping social distance, wearing our face masks, and regularly washing or sanitising our hands. As...
The Private Enterprise Federation (PEF) is pushing government to continue introducing policies, guidelines and legislation to enhance Ghana’s business-friendly environment, despite the World Bank halting publication of the Doing Business report after irregularities regarding changes to the data used in the report were detected.
Nana Osei Bonsu, Chief Executive Officer...
The Registrar-General will today, Wednesday, November 25, 2020, meet investors of eight Fund Management Companies for Creditor Meetings.
Investors can join the virtual meeting through specially designated time slots and specially created ID’s.
The eight fund Managers include Unisecurities Ghana Limited, EM Capital Partners, Heritage Securities Limited, Corporate Hills Investment Limited...
The economy is traditionally divided into three sectors: namely, the Agricultural sector, the Services sector and the Industrial sector. With a growth rate of 24.3 percent of GDP in 2016, the manufacturing sector still stands in its typical second place among the five industrial subsectors of Ghana.
About 9% of...
On behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), KfW Development Bank is set to provide debt financing in the form of a subordinated loan totaling €46.5million to the Development Bank Ghana (DBG).
This is to enable the Development Bank Ghana to provide longer-term financing for...
Consistent with its goal of driving economic transformation through financing Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), financial services provider Societe General has entered into a partnership agreement with the African Guarantee Fund (AGF) to provide a guarantee facility of GH¢35million for domestic businesses.
Speaking during a signing ceremony to formalise the...
Northern Innovation Lab (NIL), in partnership with Ghana Tech Lab, has recognised three start-ups — Agricom, Agritech, and Peace Innovation for finishing at first, second and third places respectively — at its fourth Local Startup Summit under the Pathways to Sustainable Employment Programme to focus on the role of...