Leaders of African Union member-states, including President Nana Akufo-Addo, at an Extraordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union signed onto a roadmap for the proposed Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, on Wednesday, March 22.
As part of...
Dear ECG, I beg to propose that you put measures in place to ensure your meters become easily accessible to the longsuffering masses of our people. The trouble and financial strain they go through in trying to acquire your meters are avoidable and unnecessary.
I propose you decentralise the sale...
A campaign by the Parliamentary Press Corps (PPC) for the passage of the Right to Information Bill has received a major boost as Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu assured that the Bill will be introduced to Parliament before it rises on 23 March, 2018.
According to him there was...
Skin Bleaching products. They’re a global multi-billion dollar business. In Ghana, recent headlines of pregnant women swallowing pills in a bid to create lighter skinned babies ignited fresh horror, outrage and grave concern plus a campaign from Ghana’s FDA.
The health horrors of such actions are worth citing in detail....
“Women’s history is women’s right” declared Gerda Lerner, considered the “mother” of Women’s History Month. “It is an essential, indispensable heritage from which we can draw pride, comfort, courage and long-range vision.”
Thirty-eight years after President Jimmy Carter drew on Lerner’s words in his proclamation establishing the original Women’s History...
-2018 Global Food Policy Report:
The rise of isolationism and protectionism, visible in the US withdrawal from multilateral trade and climate agreements, the UK’s “Brexit” from the EU, and growing anti-immigration rhetoric in developed countries, threatens to slow progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals and improved food security and nutrition,...
… Assume that a collateral not perfected is an equitable mortgage; and instead of assigning zero collateral value, consider extending collateral realisation period or apply a haircut
Executive summary
IFRS 9 application guidance B5.5.55 specifies that for the purposes of measuring expected credit losses (which is the calculation of impairment loss),...
For many young professionals, the world of work came by chance and not necessarily by preparation. Unfortunately, many of them did not get career advice or counselling before starting their career journey and were not adequately equipped with the skills to be outstanding in their chosen career path. It...
The early days of this year has been very rough for cryptocurrencies and anyone managing or holding these assets. Without selling of your assets, they have gone down by almost 70% and the weekend was another bloody time for cryptocurrencies as it dipped further to almost $290billion in market...
The interwar period shows how a complex network of sovereign debt can aggravate financial crises
In the early 1930s, as the Great Depression took hold, the international capital flows that were critical to the functioning of the world economy dried up. The reasons are still debated: reckless behavior of speculators...