I was originally busy slowly writing a series on Performance Management and suddenly I got a call from an acquaintance. Some ‘recruiter’ in Kumasi had a 5000 cedis job for her, guaranteed, without the 'recruiter' or the potential employer having ever met and interviewed the candidate (she lives in...
The centrality of SMEs to the economic development of developing countries, especially, has been well established. In Africa, SMEs account for the vast majority of jobs and more of such businesses would be required to absorb the growing workforce and address unemployment on the continent.
This requires an enabling environment...
Banks that want to be successful in the electronic era should no longer see themselves as gatekeepers, but as gateways offering variety of products via multiple channels
Electronic Ecosystem Participation by Banks
As banks continuously strive to better serve us all in our quest to do things electronically, they...
Fossil fuel consumption is inevitable in both obvious and subtle ways. The widespread use of these resources have immensely improved living conditions across the globe. From the use of electricity, the vehicles we operate and most of the goods consumed, fossil fuels are arguably the spine of modern society...
In 2017, the new management of the Ghana Investment Promotion Center (GIPC) set for itself the ambitious target of attracting a quantum of US$5 billion into Ghana comprising of Foreign Direct Investment, (FDI) domestic and Joint Venture (JV) inflows. The deepening of existing investment was also front and center.
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The Executive Director of the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC), May Obiri-Yeboah, addressed a press conference last week to give the nation an indication of safety on the country’s roads and the picture painted gives room for concern.
A total of 1,700 vehicles were involved in road accidents in the...
Computing from the Bank of Ghana data, the non-performing loans of the banking industry stood at about GHc6.16 billion in 2016 and GHc8.56 billion in 2017 representing a growth rate of about 39% in nominal terms. The non-performing loans ratio was 17.3% by the end of 2016 and it...
On 4th December 2017, Google marked the celebration of 50 years of kids’ coding with a doodle. This was during the Computer Science Education Week. This celebration was mainly centered on the history of coding in the United States of America. This brings to mind a question; for how...