Auto Parts Limited (APL) and Universal Motors Limited (UML) are two of the leading companies in Ghana with dealerships of the world’s most prestigious automobile brands and have a common ownership and management. It all began when Auto Parts Limited became the first company to engage in the sale...
Challenges in the macroeconomic environment, fire explosions as well pandemic related issues have been cited as the most disruptive developments to the business community by Allianz Risk Barometer research in 2021.
According to the research, 40 percent of respondents in a survey conducted by the research institution said macroeconomic challenges...
Few people are born good listeners. There is a widely accepted belief that listening is a critical part of effective communication. How many people have consciously studied about listening skills? We all think we are good enough already. But if you're not practicing active listening, chances are your listening...
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday lashed "vaccine nationalism" - accusing rich countries of bulk-buying coronavirus vaccines and hoarding them to the detriment of others.
Addressing the all-virtual 2021 World Economic Forum (WEF), Ramaphosa said low- and middle-income countries were being shouldered aside by wealthier nations able to acquire...
In recent decades, the US-Africa relationship has disappointed both sides. Republican and Democratic US presidents alike have treated the continent with benign neglect, if not with outright contempt, and the United States has duly fallen behind China, India, and France in terms of overall trade with Africa.
Although Barack Obama,...
One of the programmes that I partook and has lingered in mind is a youth-dialogue with Mr. Bernard Avle about three years ago. On that day, the Nima-Maamobi library witnessed a lush appearance of the youth for a forum organised by a nascent organisation, Young Women Leaders Achievers Network....
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has hosted a virtual learning events, concluding a seven-year, US$41.6million U.S. government-funded Feed the Future Agricultural Development and Value Chain Enhancement (ADVANCE II) activity.
During the event, participants discussed how the ADVANCE II activity aided in addressing and mitigating the stressors placed...
The post- independence failure of development banks in Ghana in the 1980s and 1990s meant that they all but disappeared from the development agenda. However, there are still a large number of development banks worldwide in countries such as Brazil, India and Chile that operate with various degrees of...
Like many other African countries, Ghana is still dearly paying for the unfortunate events of the 1970s. These events were generally characterised by chaotic military regimes, unsustainable debt accumulations the incessant appetite for state-run businesses with some being fallouts from Cold War machinations. The earlier socialist development agenda of...
There is no doubt, the late former president, Jerry John Rawlings was such a formidable force to reckon with on Ghana’s political landscape. He has been very influential in the socio-political as well as the socio-economic accounts of Ghana in the last forty years or so, particularly in this...