Parliament and judiciary increases by only 48.71% and 18.49% respectively
A case of betrayal and lack of commitment to effective separation of powers and good governance principles
Critical analysis of the 2021 budgetary allocations as against previous provisions reveal that, over the last five years, allocations to the...
Professor Douglas Boateng column
Board of directors as rightly pointed out by Charan R. Holcomb J.M. Useem M. are supposed to monitor and not manage. The role can be rewarding, challenging and also risky. Today, the relationship between board level risks and rewards especially in publicly quoted companies and state...
“Kindness is a language the blind can see and the deaf can hear.” – African proverb
There are many among us who have tendencies of looking at others negatively merely because they look different and have value-sets that are not the same as ours. There are varied reasons for such...
Fly safe and stress-free with Emirates to the vibrant and cosmopolitan city
Passengers travelling to Dubai via Emirates can now enjoy special fares, and an additional piece of baggage from 24 March to 30 June 2021. And when you fly First Class or Business Class, you also get a night’s...
Converting debt liabilities into investments that protect children is good economics and an ethical imperative.
At the height of Africa’s debt crisis in the mid-1980s, Julius Nyerere, the late president of Tanzania, asked his country’s creditors a blunt question: “Should we really let our people starve so that we can...
The crisis has hit small and medium enterprises especially hard, causing massive job losses and other economic scars. Among these—less noticeable, but also serious—is rising market power among dominant firms as they emerge even stronger while smaller rivals fall away.
We know from experience and IMF research that excessive market...
…the first step towards a winning digital strategy for insurers and financial advisors
The first thing we need to do in a discussion about Digitalization is to truly understand what it means and why we should care about it. There are at least three good reasons why we should care...
Women working in agriculture, are an undeniably a strong influence, and have for many years been the backbones of their communities and societies, contributing immensely to food security. In Ghana, agriculture remains the predominant economic activity, employing 55 percent of the workforce and producing 45 percent of the nation’s...
In order to reinforce the idea of burden-sharing in these crucial economic times that the country finds itself, the executive arm of government is seriously contemplating either stagnating or cutting down on its wages, as a means to show leadership and rally all Ghanaians along the path of economic...
The National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA) is worried that unless there is an increase in the number of active working Ghanaians contributing towards retirement, demand for public sponsored social interventions could rise in the coming years.
Government allocates around GH¢270 million to the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme yearly,...