The UN labour agency is predicting that more than 430 million enterprises in hard-hit sectors such as retail and manufacturing “risk serious disruption owing to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic”.
For millions of workers, no income means no food, no security and no future. Millions of businesses around the...
Tomorrow is May Day, however, Secretary General of the Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC), Dr Yaw Baah announced the cancelation of the 2020 May Day activities and celebration, citing the coronavirus pandemic as the reason.
Public gatherings are currently prohibited as measures to contain the spread of the deadly COVID-19...
President Nana Addo Dankwa AKUFO-ADDO and Erna SOLBERG, the Norwegian Prime Minister, both Co-chairs of the UN Secretary-General’s Eminent Group of Advocates for the SDGs, have penned down how COVID-19 is not only wreaking havoc to the global community, but also, how it is equally affecting the attainment of...
The decision to involve Rural and Community Banks in the distribution of funds from the COVID-19 stimulus package to businesses is both proper and timely. Together with the EXIM Bank and other commercial banks, the RCBs will ensure the stimulus package reaches all potential SMEs earmarked to receive the...
Annual GDP figures released by the Ghana Statistical Service indicate that the Agriculture sector is experiencing a decline in growth for the second year running, in spite of an impressive performance in 2017 soon after government introduced the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) programme.
Currently, the sector contributes the...
African Vaccination Week in unison with World Immunisation Week is celebrated every last week in April, every year, since 2001.
This year’s theme is ‘Vaccines Work for All’, celebrating the people who develop, deliver and receive vaccines as heroes contributing to protecting everyone, everywhere.
The global search for a vaccine for...
The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) has expressed its disappointment with the Ghana Shippers’ Authority over modalities being used to implement the directives to waive demurrage and rent charges.
This is because businesses were not able to operate within the lockdown period, and it is unimaginable that they would...
The UK-based Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has noted that the sharp plunge in global oil demand and prices will weigh heavily on productivity activity in the energy, oil and gas sectors of the country.
The British research firm added that the decline in the hydrocarbons sector will have spillover effects...
A strong advocate for intra-African trade because of the manifold benefits it holds, David Ofosu-Dorte - Executive Chairman of law firm AB & David, is positing that African countries should position themselves well in commerce, so as to be known for the distribution of certain goods and services throughout...