… A suicide mission or cost-saving mechanism?
The robust plans drawn up by many governments and organisations have been disrupted following the emergence of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) within the first quarter of this year. Obviously, many organisations including governments never saw it coming - hence failing to plan toward addressing...
After the long months of dealing with the coronavirus and its wide impacts on business activities and leaders, today let's get more veracious and dare to discuss the topic many business people lack the temerity to talk about – business mood, burnout, and depression.
Like machines wear out, humans do...
Floods are the second most prevalent and devastating natural disasters in sub-Saharan Africa. Between 2000 and 2019 floods accounted for 64% of all disaster events in the region. They affected the livelihoods of about 53 million people and killed more than 14,000. Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, Gabon, the Democratic...
The controversial UNIPASS deal has come to the forefront of contemporary issues in Ghana. Regarding media reports, the UNIPASS deal which has come to the limelight is arguably considered an innovative new port clearing system that processes payments through an enhanced single window for the facilitation of trade. Such...
The global economy will be shaped in the years ahead by three trends. The relationship between markets and the state will be rebalanced, in favor of the latter. This will be accompanied by a rebalancing between hyper-globalization and national autonomy, also in favor of the latter. And our ambitions...
General Secretary of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Dr. Justice Yankson, has cautioned that with the rising number of infected COVID-19 cases, if we don't take time and our health system is overwhelmed, deaths that we are worried about could go up.
As of yesterday, Tuesday, May 12, 2020, Ghana's...
Illegal fuel trade along the coast in the Central Region and the Takoradi enclave is assuming alarming proportions, and as a result the Ghana Maritime Authority (GMA) is seeking legal backing to both seize and destroy vessels engaged in the illegal activity.
The Authority’s Director General, Thomas Kofi Alonsi, speaking...
In 1961, two Nobel Prize winning economists - Franco Modigliani and Merton Miller (M&M) - gave us the ‘Dividend Irrelevance Theorem’. The theorem stated that in a competitive capital market dividend policy is irrelevant for the market value of the firm. In other words, the value of the shares...
The COVID-19 pandemic has certainly changed the way we do things; pushing all of us toward a more digital society and placing the ball squarely in the Millennials’ court.
The Global Millennial Survey published by Delloite in 2019 had some key concerns that every serious business entity must ponder...
Many uncertainties haunt the world’s campaign to counter the COVID-19 pandemic, but one thing is now sure: Global economic activity will suffer greatly, with large-scale consequences for the incomes and welfare of all, but especially for the most vulnerable food import-dependent countries.
In the absence of timely and effective policy...