A Communication Strategist, Mr. Yao Kuwornu, has urged the youth to be conscious and deliberate about building their personal brands.
This, he said, will help make them more prepared for job opportunities and be successful in their careers.
“Whether consciously or not, you are building some kind of brand; so being...
Depositors prefer to invest their monies with banks than with fund management companies due to renewed high confidence in the former following a general reform carried out by the Bank of Ghana in the banking industry, a survey by KPMG, an auditing giant, has revealed.
The ‘2020 Banking Industry Customer...
Economist call for more public investment into the sector
Despite the coronavirus pandemic’s impact hammering various sectors of the economy and sending it into a recession as it has recorded contraction in two straight quarters, the informal sector came out stronger, recording impressive growth, thereby, making a case for...
Amid the macroeconomic developments during August 2022, market watchers anticipate a 33 to 35 percent (± 0.5) consumer inflation for the month.
This will further place inflation about 3.5x over the Bank of Ghana’s upper policy target of 10 percent, and substantially well outside the long-maintained medium-term policy bracket.
Although the...
SEC to establish Investor Protection Fund
Of the total amount of claims from signed up clients of some 20 defunct fund management companies which have undergone official liquidation, just about 34 percent has been paid, the Registrar General, Jemima Oware, has revealed.
An estimated GH¢8billion is said to be locked...
Governments and development partners must respond in a more coordinated, targetted and rapid manner to be effective in limiting impact. An additional 49 million Africans could be pushed into extreme poverty by the pandemic and its aftermath; West and Central Africa stand to be worst-hit
Africa’s economic growth could rebound...
The President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has inaugurated a 60-bed Ahafo Ano North Municipal Hospital at Tepa in the Ashanti Region.
The ultra-modern facility, estimated at US$36 million is one of the nine projects under the ‘Ghana Hospitals Project’.
It has been built to the highest standards and equipped with state-of-the-art...
The prospect of rising interest rates in the US is piling pressure on debt repayments for the most indebted African nations, with Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, Zambia and Angola all facing heightened risks – a group Standard Bank Group labels the “fragile five.”
Ghana’s deteriorating public finances, Kenya’s heavy public debt...
For 200 years, we've been building a gigantic worldwide machine driving relentless economic growth. What we recognise evermore is that it is not fulfilling its promise of prosperity.
The dominant economic models today almost exclusively emphasise the virtues of growth, ignoring the resultant negative outcomes of power asymmetry, social inequality...
Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has acknowledged the adverse effects of COVID-19 on both local and global economies, saying it will result in low revenue mobilisation as prices of crude oil slump on the world market.
Dr. Bawumia said this when he launched the Universal QR Code and Proxy Pay...