Global merchandise trade is set to plummet by an estimated 13-32% this year (2020) because of COVID-19, trade analysts have indicated.
The pandemic has paralysed manufacturing networks and supply chains – especially in China, which accounts for 28% of global manufacturing output. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the global economy...
While the long-term outlook for the COVID-19 pandemic is still highly uncertain, businesses, individuals and families are nevertheless having to adapt to new, troubling challenges such as severe supply and demand disruption, social distancing and serious health implications.
Business continuity is crucial – staff must be protected and able to...
“Good leaders are born with certain characteristics and traits however great leaders are made through their daily deliberate and relentless actions, life experiences, continuous learning and self-development practices.”- Irene Asare
Are leaders born or made? This is a question many are still scratching their heads over in search of the...
The COVID-19 crisis augurs three watersheds: the end of Europe’s integration project, the end of a united, functional America, and the end of the implicit social compact between the Chinese state and its citizens. As a result, all three powers will emerge from the pandemic internally weakened, undermining their...
Fiscal policies have provided large emergency lifelines to people and firms during the COVID-19 pandemic. They are also invaluable to increase a country’s readiness to respond to a crisis and to help with the recovery and beyond.
When the Great Lockdown finally ends, a strong economic recovery that benefits everyone...
…what they can do to prepare for COVID-19 recovery( 3)
Some few weeks ago, I wrote on how COVID-19 has revealed the need to develop our domestic tourism and promote our intra African tourism. It is becoming clear that our over dependency on international tourism, most especially the West, should...
“Papa! Tell us about 2020”. With eagerness and expectation, my grandchild, Nii looked up, expecting some kind of profound answer. I smiled, savouring the moment, readjusted myself in my seat, my disposition- that of a warrior about to recount a famous legend, I looked the 11 year old boy...
With some countries already emerging from lockdown, can wearing face masks in public help to keep coronavirus infection rates from rising again?
Face masks are a symbol of the pandemic era – a visual metaphor for the tiny, unseen viral foe that could be lurking around any corner. Some opt...
Coronavirus coverage appears to concentrate on new incidents and casualties but how many people did recover? And how do people recover from the virus?
Coronavirus affects our everyday lives, with recent enforcements suggesting that the nation has to stay at home and avoid unessential public spaces-how many people in Ghana...
International businesses are the hardest hit by the on-going COVID-19 pandemic and the cashew sector is no different.
China, USA and European countries, which are the major cashew kernel markets, have closed their borders to travels to control the spread of the deadly virus, slowing down trade. Cashew processing giants...