The general price levels of goods and services in November 2020 increased by 9.8 percent but represents the lowest inflation rate since the pandemic started impacting prices, data released by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) have shown. Prior to April this year, inflation had stayed flat at 7.8 percent for...
Favourable tax system Expansion of NEIP, others Access to market through AfCFTA Startups and small businesses in the country want President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s next term in office to focus on making the business environment more friendly - by reforming the tax system, expanding the existing entrepreneurial programmes...
Personal selling is seen as a more impactful way of selling because the salesperson actually makes a deliberate attempt to use his selling ideas and dexterity to convince the prospective buyer to buy the product or service. If the salesperson is crafty enough, the buyer actually buys the product...
Enterprise Life, Ghana’s leading life insurance underwriter, has partnered Vodafone Ghana, MicroEnsure and Prudential Life to launch an all-inclusive mobile insurance product known as SafeNet for customers. SafeNet is underwritten by Enterprise Life Insurance Company Limited and Prudential Life Insurance Ghana Limited. The product has been designed to offer customers various...
… new agency, fund expected to drive industry’s growth Parliament has passed the Creative Arts Industry bill 2020 into law, to accelerate growth of the sector. The law will serve as a framework to regulate the country’s creative economy, including music, film, advertising, public relations, architecture, fashion and tourism,...
The year 2019 was an unprecedented year in terms of tourism in Ghana. The success of that year was supposed to be a stepping stone that will eventually flourish and plans where advanced to go ahead with the ‘Beyond the Return’ concept which aimed at keeping the momentum gathered...
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has officially stated that it will go to the Supreme Court to challenge the results of the December 7 Presidential election declared by the Electoral Commission (EC). In a statement signed by the General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asideu-Nketiah--- he announced that the...
It will be erroneous to think that the official commencement of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) on January 1, 2021, has been rushed since it is not an event but a process, Wamkele Mene, the AfCFTA’s Secretary General, has said. Responding to critics who opine that the agreement’s...
The acting Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah, has charged the Customs division of GRA to automate more of their processes and develop unique technologies to help block gaps in their system and boost their collection figures. He made this known in a speech read on his...
Amenfiman Rural Bank, one of the nation’s leading Rural bank was established in 1980 at Wasa Akropong in the Western Region. The Bank has grown significantly over the period and has been successful in executing its core mandate of financial inclusion and rural economic development in Ghana. It has...