Recently the economy recorded one of its most impressive growth rates in recent times (8.5%) last year, which is the highest in five years. However, agriculture, considered the backbone of the economy, continues to see its contribution to GDP decline - and that is worrying.
The sector’s contribution to GDP...
A United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty, Philip Alston who is on a 10-day fact-finding mission to the Greater Accra, Northern and Upper East Regions, has made some extremely revealing statements that we believe require our collective attention.
And just to quote him: “Ghanaian politicians are immensely fond of,...
Moesha Boduong. One Ghanaian woman. One minute four second interview on CNN. One international award winning journalist, Christiane Amanpour. One outraged and disgusted nation.
The woman condemned. The journalist lambasted.
Moesha contributed to a series called ‘Sex and Love: Around the World’. The series features the nations of Ghana, India, Germany...
Ever since Edward.L. Thorndike profess the idea of social intelligence in the 1920s which sciences equated it into emotional Intelligence, it has become a force to reckon with. It is a proven fact that unlike in the past where IQ was the only measure of intelligence and success, studies...
The first quarter of 2018 has seen a sharp decline in market prices for cryptocurrencies. The trend had been downward until recently. This has been a very long bear market for most crypto enthusiasts but has given many people the opportunity to buy cryptocurrencies and hold in their bags....
Based on what meteorologists are saying, there is likely to be unprecedented rains this season; and as a consequence, many parts of the city of Accra will again be flooded. Works and Housing Minister Samuel Atta Akyea toured some parts of the capital to inspect drains ahead of the...
‘Once bitten, twice shy’ is the most apt adage that explains the general apprehension surrounding the emergence of fall armyworm (FAW) infestation that seems to have come to stay with us for a long time.
Since 2017, the devastation wrought by the FAW in Ghana has been phenomenal - and...
Rules to contain lavish government deficits are most effective if countries design them to be simple, flexible, and enforceable in the face of changing economic circumstances.
In new analysis, we look at fiscal rules in over 90 countries and, based on their experiences, find that the rules put in the...
The coming into being of the 1992 Constitution, which prohibits the grant of freehold estate in stool lands, effectively ended the era where one could purchase such estates in Ghana. Even though the Constitution only prohibits transfer of freehold interest in stool lands, the owners of the other types...
