… summary of the facts as at April 19
Death rate in Ghana as a percentage of known infections has dropped 1.45 percent from to 0.86 percent. In South Africa it has increased from 1.2 percent to 1.7 percent and globally from 6.2 percent to 6.9 percent.
As expected, due to increased...
Moody's Investors Service (Moody's) has affirmed the Ghana's long-term local and foreign currency issuer and foreign currency senior unsecured bond ratings at B3 and changed the outlook to negative from positive.
Moody's has concurrently affirmed the local and foreign currency senior unsecured MTN ratings at (P)B3 and the rating of...
Entrepreneurship is hard, and managing your business through difficult times is even harder in the absence of a business continuity plan. A business continuity plan is a plan that sets out the processes set aside to create a system of prevention and recovery from potential threats to a company...
The global spread of COVID-19 and the rising number of coronavirus cases in Africa are fuelling anxiety about negative economic growth, failing healthcare and collapsing food systems
We are facing great uncertainty on the African continent. The global spread of COVID-19 and the rising number of coronavirus cases in Africa...
Human viruses attack human beings while software viruses attack electronic gadgets like computers, mobile phones, TVs and all devices that have software. Since the COVID-19 pandemic struck, one area that has proven to be of immense value to our survival is our communication systems.
What if the Coronavirus was a...
It appears in these uncertain times of COVID-19, that most people are concerned about the effect of COVID-19 on their employment contracts and how to mitigate any hardships that may arise from this pandemic.
In this paper, we will address the following issues:
the effect of COVID-19 on employment contracts;...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Executive Board on 13th April 2020 approved the disbursement of US$1billion to be drawn under the Rapid Credit Facility (RCF). The disbursement will help address the urgent fiscal and balance of payment needs Ghana is facing, improve confidence and catalyse support from other development...
On Friday, 17th April 2020, while Ghanaian authorities were assessing the performance of the measures put in place to deal with COVID-19, Moody’s, a credit rating agency released a report that maintains the rating for Ghana but revised the outlook from positive outlook to negative outlook.
The negative outlook signals...
Covid-19 has severely decreased the number of daily flights. But where are all those grounded planes kept during a pandemic?
Between a third and half of the global population are in some form of lockdown. City centres, malls, high streets and tourist attractions are all quiet – and so too...
While much of the public discourse surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) focusses on dire predictions about robots stealing jobs, a growing number of future-minded business leaders are embracing an altogether more optimistic and empowering narrative.
“Visionary leaders realise our future is not about people versus machines at all, but about how...