Today’s budget statement is expected to provide a blueprint that will salvage the economy from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is particularly so when the country’s finances are not in the best of health.
The Trades Union Congress, as part of its proposals for the 2021 budget statement,...
“The Income Tax Act created more criminals than any other single Act of government”- Barry Goldwater, US Senator
Tax evasion is a crime against the state and the GRA has declared its intention to prosecute tax defaulters in 2021. In the 2019 budget statement, the Minister of Finance, stated at...
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the weaknesses in legacy banking practices, and banks need to explore new and innovative ways to stay relevant for the future. The future of banking has forever been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and any bank that does not look forward but continues to...
The life of Prophet Muhammad
It was an azure-skied afternoon, like most other sunny days in Nima. I was on motorbike, negotiating the curve around the Institute of Islamic Studies, Research in Nima when I heard my name reverberate in the skies. ‘Maaaaaaazi.” This was to be expected. The...
The legal rules or ownership policy must establish checks and balances in the way the government exercises its ownership role, generally by sharing the responsibility between different departments. In this process, care should be taken to avoid a regulatory ‘overburden’ (Reddy, 2006): if state owned institutions are overseen by...
There is no denying the fact that every successful business prides itself on the people in it who make things work from day to day. Right from the organizational pivot to the average ‘Joe’ everyone takes some credit for the impressive outcomes acknowledged by customers. A well-organized business where...
Oftentimes, we hear people talk about the ‘American Dream’. Have you heard someone talk about the Ghanaian Dream? What is your dream for Ghana? What should the Ghanaian dream be? What should be our collective dream for Ghana?
GhanaThink is running a campaign in 2021 starting from Ghana’s birthday to...
Technology and climate change are rapidly changing how we do business and the skillset needed to function effectively in the current business environment. Climate change is considered as the greatest threat to the future of humankind. Technology is impacting all aspects of how businesses are conducted. It has changed...
As the rest of the world prepares for a vaccine-driven return to normal over the next few months, at her community health center in a poor, working class neighborhood of Cape Town, Andrea Mendelsohn is dreading the arrival of April and May—that’s when the weather will get cooler in...
Patience Gamor made a personal pledge, some years back, to support the education of the underprivileged, having been a beneficiary of similar support from the principal of John Teye Memorial School.
Since 2013 when she established Golden Spring School, she has been working tirelessly towards achieving her objective though she...