Daily school meals must be prioritized in school reopening plans advise United Nations agencies, WFP and UNICEF
Around the world more than 39 billion in-school meals have been missed globally since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic due to school closures, according to a new report released today by the...
Contactless digitisation can play a crucial role during the COVID-19 era and FinTechs can play an enabling role in promoting access to finance in a meaningful and strong manner, especially for low-income people and all kinds of MSMEs. For that to happen, however, the digital divide has to be...
Ing. Mrs. Carlien Bou-Chedid, a female Ghanaian Engineer was last week Friday sworn-in as the President of the Federation of African Engineering Organization (FAEO).
The impressive FAEO 5th Presidential Investiture ceremony was hosted by the Ghana Institution of Engineering (GhIE), whose Immediate Past President, Ing. Mrs. Carlien Bou-Chedid, was elected...
The beginning of every expedition is characterized with excitements and euphoria, great optimism and a purposeful energy for accomplishment. Sometimes with a little shadow of doubts, feeling of uncertainties and the inability to envisage clearly how the future holds, often become the bane to dream and more importantly push...
Financial Wellness with Richmond Kwame Frimpong
Put simply, a mutual fund is a pool of funds(money) collected from many investors for the purpose of investing in securities such as stocks, bonds, money market instruments and similar assets. It usually employs a professional fund manager to manage the investment. The manager’s...
Star Assurance Group Limited (SAGL), a wholly Ghanaian-owned private company, has positioned itself to transform Ghana’s competitive insurance sector.
This follows the recent consolidation of its holdings in three leading insurance companies into a mega-group. The three companies are Star Assurance Company Limited, StarLife Assurance Company Limited, and Star Microinsurance Company...
Remote work also referred to as telecommuting (work from anywhere or teleworking) has been with us since the 1970s. Over the past, two to three decades’ efforts have been made to institutionalize and further formalize the future of work. In 1995 a phrase was coined to put in perspective...
Access to finance continues to be a major hinderance to the growth of small businesses. This challenge has been attributed to small businesses inability to provide collateral to secure funding, inability to demonstrate adequate traction, inadequate knowledge and experience as well as lack of adequate information on the operations...
While an earlier article talked about value chain financing (VCF), the key question of relevance is what can be done in a practical sense to re-engineer financing of agriculture through VCF, especially in the Covid-19 era?
For this, financial inclusion of agriculture through VCF should not be merely viewed as...
The Media as a Social Force for Change
The media plays a critical role in shaping and directing society toward a national conscience of developmental goals, based on how it selects and cuts through a nation’s developmental agenda by making some issues more salient than others. Through the media’s selection...