Governments and policy makers must focus on saving lives and economies at all cost without regard to Debt to GDP ratios. We are in a very difficult time globally. The world is faced with a serious pandemic that’s ravaging all economies. World economic giants are all scrambling to stop...
President Akufo-Addo has lifted the ban on restrictions on movement in the areas where lockdown was imposed three weeks ago.
The decision, the President noted, is due to the rigorous exercise the country has undertaken to conduct aggressive contacts tracing to prevent the spread of Coronavirus in the country.
“In view...
President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is said to have gone into self-isolation after a member in his close circles tested positive to coronavirus, the Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has said.
According to a statement issued and signed by the Minister, even though the President has tested negative to the...
CEO Network Ghana has made an initial donation of GH¢200,000 to the Covid-19 National Trust Fund at the Jubilee House, the seat of Ghana’s presidency in Accra.
The amount is the first tranche of a targeted sum of GH¢1 million it is raising to support the national fight against Covid-19. This...
We cannot know how society protects its weakest and vulnerable, those at the bottom of society, from deprivation until a catastrophe such as COVID-19 - the “unseeable, undead, unliving blob”, to use the words of Arundhati Roy - is unleashed on us.
Ghana has a sub-optimal social protection system, its...
The World Health Organisation defines the new global pandemic coronavirus disease as a highly infectious disease caused by a newly discovered strand of the coronavirus in late 2019, hence the infamous name (COVID-19).
Most people infected with the COVID-19 virus experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without requiring...
New law expected to be passed this year
Cybersecurity Authority to be established for strict compliance
COVID-19 is not only fast-tracking electronic transactions but also cybersecurity regulations to ensure that as more businesses serve their clients digitally, the cyber space is kept secure and safe from any breech,...
The financial services industry is leading the drive to slow down the spread of the Covid-19. Operating a cash-lite society has become a key target of central banks globally; and it is poised to change banking and the customer experience forever. At Bloomberg Invest Global 2020, a virtual conference...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on Sub-Saharan African will come from three main shocks namely, economic disruptions, spillovers from global fallouts, and commodity price shocks.
In its report released from the April 2020 virtual Spring Meetings on Sub-Saharan, the Bretton Woods institution said...
An expert in supply and value chain management, Professor Douglas Boateng, has intimated that the best way to fight the coronavirus (COVID-19) is to tailor-make solutions to complement the economic architecture of a country.
According to him, globally, there is no ‘one size fits all’ strategy answer to the pandemic....