The test of leadership comes in many forms. And as the world battles the current pandemic, many leadership skills and styles are being tested. Every move, every decision and every plan counts to either propel a nation, organization or community forward or backward. At the end of the day,...
Africa is no stranger to epidemics and public-health crises. Ebola is estimated to have killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa in 2014-16, and more recently claimed over 2,000 lives in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Because of their fragile health systems, African countries were able...
Imagine a world in which a global network of medical professionals monitored for emerging strains of a contagious virus, periodically updated an established formula for vaccinating against it, and then made that information available to companies and countries around the world. Moreover, imagine if this work were done without...
- lessons from COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic that originated in Wuhan, China, and has spread across the world over the past few months has affected, perhaps, every sphere of human existence. It has had diverse effects on the politics of nations, health, law, and on human and business relations....
…A Finance and Investment perspective.
From a small market in Wuhan, China, the novel Coronavirus, now named COVID-19 began an inexorable march around the world and is now truly a global health crisis. Half a century of globalization has brought us closer, for good or for worse. Integrated financial markets,...
Introduction
The Institute of ICT Professionals Ghana (IIPGH), an association of professionals in the information and communication technology (ICT) industry in Ghana, has been following with keen interest recent conversations on social media and mainstream media with regards to stories linking the new mobile telephony technology called 5G to the...
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...
Welcome to another week of financial learning. We will be discussing the “hunger” impact of Covid-19 lockdown on the masses.
The COVID-19 lockdown has taught us lessons that we will need to incorporate as part of our daily lives going forward.
One such lesson is going back to the basics of...