Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Ernest Addison addressed the 96th Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) press briefing on Monday and observed that the economy is showing emerging signs of recovery, following the sharp global economic contraction in the first half of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He expressed...
In May, China’s central leadership proclaimed that it would “fully develop the advantages of super-large market and the potential for domestic demand to establish a new development pattern featuring domestic and international dual circulations that complement each other.” “Dual circulation” has been the subject of intense discussion within...
When I first heard about the community of Old Fadama in Accra, Ghana, I recognised something. A Ghanaian Catholic sister who visited the green market weekly in that neighbourhood told me about it. She worried about a community of vulnerable migrant women known as “head porters” or kayayei, who...
Barring any hiccups, the Register General’s Department (RGD) is expected to deploy the much-anticipated central beneficiary ownership (OB) register by next week. The deployment of the BO register will be done concurrently with the upgrade of the Company’s’ Act, 2019, (Act 992) in fulfillment of government’s quest of creating an...
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are global development goals setup up by the UN with consultation from it partner states and other partner institutions. The main objective of these goals is to eradicate poverty, ensure sustainable development and environmental protection. The UN and all its partners believe that these objectives can...
Insurance and retail giants, Hollard Ghana and Melcom Limited have announced the addition of general insurance to their partnership following an endorsement by the National Insurance Commission. The addition will strengthen the insurance and retail industry’s pioneering partnership to widen insurance penetration and make it more accessible to Ghanaians. Via Hollard...
G-Money, GCB Bank Ghana Limited’s mobile money service has launched ‘Nexus,’ an open Application Programming Interface (API) system to onboard third-party Financial Technology (FinTech) partners. With the API, G-Money partners are now able to perform disbursements, collections and Bill Payments including the payment of school fees and utility bills. Additionally,...
The Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has called on government to regularize BT cowpea, a genetically modified variety. The new insect resistant improved cowpea variety developed by the Institute in collaboration with partner institutions, has the potential to boost cowpea production by...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had both economic and social effects on local communities, resulting in an increase in crime, domestic violence, prices, and low business productivity. However, assistance from non-state actors such as churches and philanthropists provided significant support in complementing Government’s efforts to lessen the impact of the pandemic...
The government has set a revenue target of US$1 billion from export of vegetables over the next six to seven years. The projection is banked on recent investments in green house villages at Bawjiase, Akomadan and Dawhenya and the construction of irrigation dams across the country, which the government expects...