The World Food Programme (WFP) has embarked on a groundbreaking collaboration with local food manufacturers aimed at providing safe and nutritious meals to beneficiaries of its programmes. This strategic initiative encompasses the entire food production process, from sourcing to processing and distribution. It aligns with WFP's local sourcing policy, which...
SMEs are central to the growth of emerging markets globally Free zones and industrial parks are viewed as key to the development of SMEs Egyptian company Polaris Parks has an industrial site dedicated to small businesses The AfCFTA is expected to provide SMEs with significant opportunities to export...
By Kojo Manuel Apply first principles to capture customer sentiments for improvements It may seem a daunting task to map the customer journey, however, it is necessary to go through the process if you want to be intentional about delivering positive experiences to customers. The customer journey map is a visual...
With the New Patriotic Party’s internal elections gradually getting to the summit, the focus is more on the Presidential Primary than any other. More as ever, we hear people discussing who will get the nod in the Presidential Primary next year. The discussions are based on who is most capable...
Arts and culture-related industries provide direct economic growth for the state and local communities. They are important complements to community development and enriching local amenities. Arts and culture create job opportunities and also stimulates local economies through consumer purchases and tourism. Tourism centred on culture and arts contributes greatly to...
It is impossible to cover all the myriads of society’s challenges but we need to give up our best, and optimise resource utilisation to achieve the welfare of the masses. The emerging high level of society’s economic inequality is not compatible with democracy. These inequalities are gradual building blocks for...
the journey of Kwabena Agyei Agyepong Many Ghanaians would be familiar with the glorious Ing. Kwabena Adjei Agyepong, having served as Press Secretary and spokesperson of former President John Kufuor from 2001 to 2006. He was the youngest of 17 aspirants who contested for the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP)...
I experienced my first menstrual flow in Primary 6. I was 12 years old. I did not tell anybody about it. Not even my mother! Frankly, I do not know why I did not tell her but somehow I managed the flow with toilet roll. I recall sitting in class...
Africa is on the move. No part of the world is urbanising faster than the continent. Since 1990, the number of cities in Africa has doubled from 3,300 to 7,600, according to the African Development Bank. The United Nations predicts that by 2050, two out of every three people...
ATHOUR: Ivor AGYEMAN-DUAH NO OF PAGES: 533 PUBLISHERS:HAWKES DESIGNS AND PUBLISHING,UK Reviewer: Kwame PIANIM Sixty-five years on, the Bank of Ghana in a nation’s history Ivor Agyeman-Duah has put together a well-researched and felicitously penned history of central banking in Ghana. In the process, he gives the reader a broad brush of economic...