More than US$500m to address the COVID-19 pandemic
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, committed US$5.6billion to private sector development in the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa in fiscal year 2020, supporting businesses across the two regions to launch, grow, provide jobs and fight impacts of the...
Prudential Life Insurance has announced a partnership with three institutions; United Way Ghana, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the School of Languages, University of Ghana to fund projects that are set to impact over 23,000 Ghanaians.
United Way Ghana is bringing together local expertise in the fields of education,...
NEW YORK – The robots are no longer coming; they are here. The COVID-19 pandemic is hastening the spread of artificial intelligence (AI), but few have fully considered the short- and long-term consequences.
In thinking about AI, it is natural to start from the perspective of welfare economics – productivity...
Amid a global pandemic, unprecedented needs and growing insecurity, aid workers and health care responders are staying and delivering to the world’s most vulnerable people
Last year was the most violent on record for humanitarians with 483 attacked, 125 killed, 234 wounded and 124 kidnapped. The UN condemns...
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...
Quartey calls for consumption of Made in Ghana goods to revive sector
If there is any sector that was not spared the ruins of the coronavirus pandemic, then, the manufacturing sector cannot be overlooked, as new data shows it has experienced its biggest contraction in more than six...
The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has been adjudged the Outstanding Ghanaian-owned Corporate Organization of the year 2019 at the just ended 7th Made in Ghana Awards organised by Entrepreneurs Foundation Ghana.
SSNIT was found to have refocused the Trust’s business to position it as a “credible and...
The role of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the edifice of the Ghanaian financial sub-sector; and their contribution to socio-economic development and growth of the country cannot be overemphasised. In recent years, the Ghanaian economy has witnessed the formal establishment of several microfinance institutions. Connoisseurs of activities in the financial...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has, once again, reaffirmed his administration’s support for any private company which was ready to help in advancing the progress of the country.
“I want to reiterate that I am particularly keen to assist any private company which is ready to advance the progress of...
The National Insurance Commission (NIC) has commenced the training of some 250 National Service Personnel posted to the Ghana Police Service’s Urban Traffic Management Unit of the Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD).
The training forms part of the Commission’s structured agenda to create insurance awareness in the country, and...