John Bewuah Edusei, the newly-appointed Vice President of Confederation for the Development of Poultry in Africa (CADA), has called for commitment to revive the local poultry industry and agricultural industry as a whole. Mr. Edusei cautioned that the country’s failure to transform the agriculture sector could result in hunger and...
Data from the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) shows that between 2015 and 2020 the contribution of personal income tax fell from 2.1 percent to 1.22 percent - a situation that is affecting domestic revenue mobilisation, as the country is among the continent’s economies with the poorest tax to GDP...
The delay in approving tax waivers to companies under the One District-One Factory (1D1F) initiative by parliament has been described as ‘worrying and killing industry’ by the Chairperson of the Trade Committee in Parliament, Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah. Mr. Ahenkorah made these remarks on the floor of parliament following presentation of...
COVID-19 has had devastating effects on businesses of all shapes and sizes around the world. This has caused a drastic shift in conduct and behaviour at work. It is affecting organisational culture, human interactions at work among others. Various measures have been put in place to contain and curb...
The private sector-led initiative to combat the novel coronavirus - the COVID-19 Private Sector Fund, plans to construct a 100-bed COVID-19 treatment and isolation facility to complement government efforts to contain the virus, and that is really welcome news in view of the increased number of infected cases recorded...
The annual Aggrey-Fraser-Guisberg Memorial Lectures, which was instituted in 1957 to commemorate three distinguished personalities in the nation’s history, is a major event in the life of the University of Ghana and indeed the nation as a whole. The theme for this year’s lecture was ‘Nkrumah and the Making of...
Aware of the DDEP’s potential impact on the financial sector, steps are being taken to mitigate that impact by establishing the Ghana Financial Stability Fund to, among others, provide solvency and liquidity support to eligible financial sector institutions. The Financial Stability Fund (FSF) is finally set to come into play...
After several rescheduling of the renewable energy targets for the nation, analysts are again beginning to question the 2030 deadline toward achieving 10 percent of the country’s energy mix with renewables. Despite aims to boost renewables in the country’s energy mix from 41.5 megawatts in 2015 to 1353.63MW by 2030...
Amid the anxiety and trepidation that the country could descend into chaos owing to the keen combat exhibited by the contesting political parties for the just-ended elections, Ghana again has come out the winner by going through relatively calm and highly patronised national elections. The fact that Ghana was able...
Business Development Minister, Dr Mohammed Awal, during the launch of Young Women in Entrepreneurship this week also used the occasion to appeal to businesses not to sit aloof without partaking in the free trade which kicks off in January 2021. “Ghana should not be a spectator in AfCFTA. Ghana should...