It doesn't matter whether you work from home or commute to work every day, workplace ethics is required to build a successful career. Organizations are known to embrace ethical practices and behaviors to increase productivity and uphold integrity—while sanctioning workers who default workplace ethics.
These ethics are implemented by employers...
Ghana’s current place as the largest producer of gold in Africa pales into insignificance when one considers that the country continues to experience disappointing results in translating this mineral wealth into broad economic development for the benefit of its citizenry - especially mining communities.
Host communities of these deposits are...
The increase in unemployment indices among the youth and graduates should not be solely blamed on lack of Jobs, but also lack of commitment, interest and job-readiness on the part of the unemployed. Some of those already employed keep working their way out of work to join the unemployed...
The statistician Nassim Nicholas Taleb coined the term “black swan” to describe improbable, hard-to-predict events that can have a massive impact on the economy. The authors of a recent report have now introduced into the taxonomy of finance the phrase “green swans”: events caused by climate change and biodiversity...
Emerging markets must balance overcoming the pandemic, returning to more normal policies, and rebuilding their economies
As the COVID-19 pandemic enters a second year, concerns are rising about how well emerging markets will fare. So far, they have been agile in responding to the economic fallout from the pandemic with...
The streets of the central business district in Accra are littered with imposing buildings- a delectable blend of modern sustainable architecture and the ‘old money’ classical building style, monoliths of the colonial era of commerce. Within these walls had been shaped many defining deals and transactions. In some parts,...
Sustainability Corner
“Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.”
--------James Baldwin, Poet and activist
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The world is shifting at a breakneck speed. Internet connectivity has unlocked new and constantly faster communication modes, and we are now more connected than ever before. This...
On June 11th, Graphic online published an article by BBC that, according to a report by Amnesty International released on June 9th, China is committing crimes against humanity in Xinjiang by creating “a dystopian hellscape on a staggering scale”. Such accusation is an outright lie. The fact is that...
Food security is vital to achieving good health and well-being, eradicating poverty and ending hunger. Good health and well-being, ‘‘no hunger’’ and ‘‘no poverty’’ are three of the United Nations sustainable development goals (UN SDGs) that are inextricably intertwined with food security. Considered to be an essential element of...