Ghana has set March 2 as the day to begin distribution of the 600,000 doses COVID-19 vaccine from the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access (COVAX) Facility received yesterday morning. Already, some regions have prepared to receive their allocations and proceed with immunisations.
The Minister-designate for Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu, led a...
With banking income growing by 11% per year on average and African fintech firms raising more than US$800 million in equity funding in 2019, Africa’s financial industry was one of the most dynamic in the world before the COVID-19 pandemic struck.
However, the impact of the economic crisis promises to...
The country’s public debt has now crossed the dreaded threshold of economies that can be classified as distressed, as data published by the Bank of Ghana shows debt to GDP is now 80.1 percent at the end of December 2021.
According to the Summary of Economic and Financial data (March...
Quantitative Easing (QE) is another form of expansionary monetary policy in which the Central Bank of a country purchases a large number of financial assets, such as bonds, from commercial banks and other financial institutions. The purchase of these assets in large amounts increases the excess reserves held by...
The whole essence of acquiring education and all the credentials is to enable you make ends meet and take care of yourself, family and offer support to resolving issues and crisis if you are humanitarian at heart both locally, regionally or globally. How do we prepare for tomorrow’s job...
Consumers are now more confident in the economy and think it is the opportune time to buy the things they need, the latest Nielsen Consumer Confidence Index (CCi) has shown.
According to the West Africa Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) figures released by Nielsen for Quarter-4, 2017, Ghana climbed eight points...
Despite inflation trending downwards, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Ghana, has for the third consecutive time, maintained the monetary policy rate at 14.5 percent, citing widening fiscal policy as the main concern.
Headline inflation, after peaking at 11.4 percent, has eased slightly above the upper band...
Wealthy polluter nations must pay up for climate-induced losses and damages suffered by most vulnerable and poor nations, Country Director of ActionAid Ghana John Nkaw has proposed.
Mr. Nkaw, who was addressing participants at the National Climate Change Seminar in Accra, said millions of farmers in vulnerable countries, including Ghana,...
The new South African High Commissioner to Ghana Her Excellency Grace Jeanet Mason is building strong diplomatic credentials that will serve as a benchmark for years to come. Already, she has become a favorite of locals due to her unique personality which has been hailed widely.
An exceptional start as a...
State-owned enterprises (SOEs), particularly those with internally generated funds, remain largely ineffective because they are manned by politicians seeking their own interest and not that of the state, Professor H. Kwasi Prempeh, Executive Director of the Centre for Democratic Development-Ghana (CDD-Ghana), has said.
Prof. Prempeh believes most persons are appointed...