Financial institutions in Ghana appreciate the fact that the future of financial services lies not with face-to-face interactions or brick and mortar structures but with appropriate technology solutions. Indeed, the pervasive use of technology in the financial sector has meant that the losers are the ones who do not use...
Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has lamented that for the past six years 47 public enterprises have not submitted any financial statements to his ministry, in stark contravention of the Public Financial Management (PFMA) Act 921.
Mr. Ofori-Atta disclosed that only 14 out of 129 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) and Other State...
“A satisfied man doesn't understand the feelings of a hungry man.” – African proverb
It is no secret that the world has gotten greedier. All around us unethical behaviour is on the rise and being touted as the norm. These attitudes, which usually start as ‘innocent’ fudges induced by our...
Although economics uses mathematical models and machine-learning techniques, it is still a social science. But compared to most other disciplines, the profession does not even come close to representing the societies we live in.
In the United States, women received only 32% of US PhD degrees in economics in 2018,...
What do you do to add value? Do you unpack complex problems and solve them? Do you convey novel ideas with impact? Do you bring people together under extraordinary circumstances? If your work encompasses any of these, you are well poised to generate wealth in today’s economy.
Non-physical assets began...
“Good governance cannot remain merely a philosophy. Concrete steps have to be taken for realizing its goals.”
-----------Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India
Businesses and their leadership are under increasing scrutiny for many reasons. Governance issues are at the centre of these attacks, yet there is still a lot of debate...
The growth of neo-colonial tendencies, the current geopolitical developments and the scramble for its resources by external countries in Africa: these are some of the issues researcher and business analyst Lipton Matthews recently discussed with Kester Kenn Klomegah for InDepthNews (IDN). Matthews is associated with Merion West, The Federalist,...
Since I mentioned it, here it is. Last week when ‘Stealing From All Angles’, I made reference to this old piece of mine, ‘Higher Learning; Low Expectations’, a piece written during the very height of the pandemic.
I find myself saying the same things over and over again of late....