In an Africa, dealing with monumental infrastructure and energy deficits; a teeming youthful population desperate for jobs and opportunities; and currently facing what is arguably its most daunting challenge - the COVID-19 pandemic; the continent has never been as in need of leaders, who care about the development and...
The Amenfiman Rural Bank Limited at Wasa Akropong in the Wasa Amenfi East district in the Western Region has donated items tothe government through three local assemblies to support the fight against COVID-19.
The items worth about GH¢67,000 were presented to Wasa Amenfi West Municipality, Wasa Amenfi East Municipality and Wasa...
GLICO, the one-stop shop for insurance and financial services in Ghana, has donated various essential items to the Ghana Prisons Service to assist in measures taken to prevent spread of COVID-19.
The essential items included large quantities of Veronica-buckets, gallons of hand-sanitisers, boxes of vitamin C tablets and thermometer guns.
In...
COVID-19 has disrupted the whole world and has made people think differently. Globally, various activities have been disturbed and human activities have been brought to a standstill.
Over a billion students worldwide are unable to go to school due to measures to stop the spread of COVID-19. This pandemic is...
Ironically, just as the “democratic socialist” Bernie Sanders has suspended his presidential campaign in the United States, many of his policy proposals are becoming necessary around the world. Social-distancing measures to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic have disrupted production and household income streams alike. But the effectiveness of social distancing...
There is no historical precedent for the current worldwide shutdown of most ‘non-essential’ economic activities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nor do policymakers have any experience of trying to engineer a smooth recovery after a shock of this magnitude. Clearly, however, governments now need to take responsibility. With...
The unprecedented shutdown of much of the US economy that has been ordered by federal, state, and local governments is understandable given the need to slow the coronavirus’s spread. Too often, however, well-intentioned and often long-lasting government interventions prevent markets from working properly and thus do more harm than...
Thanks to the internet and social media platforms, work is still on going for many institutions and organisations in the midst of the worldwide lockdown following the COVID 19 pandemic. The lockdown has been necessitated by the nature of its spread from person to person at a very close...
A policy brief by the Africa Centre for Entrepreneurship and Youth Empowerment (ACEYE)
Ghana’s startup entrepreneurship ecosystem is dotted with a few dozen organisations looking to use technology as a lever to augment traditional financial services, contribute to building a better national financial system, and expand financial inclusion among other...
The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service Dr. Patrick Kuma Aboagye has announced that some 17 persons have fully recovered from COVID-19 in Ghana.
According to the Dr Kuma, their recovery results were achieved after the they had tested double negative after undergoing all treatments.
"Some 17 people have fully recovered...