With more than US$7.5 trillion owed to external creditors, emerging economies’ debt-service costs are becoming increasingly onerous just when they need as much fiscal space as possible to confront the COVID-19 crisis. While there is a strong case for canceling much of this debt, many key players oppose doing...
Surging need driven by boom in electric cars, with 23 million passenger vehicles expected to be produced by 2030
The demand for raw materials used to manufacture rechargeable batteries will grow rapidly as the importance of oil as a source of energy recedes, as highlighted recently by the collapse of...
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed economies into a Great Lockdown, which helped contain the virus and save lives, but also triggered the worst recession since the Great Depression. Over 75 percent of countries are now reopening at the same time as the pandemic is intensifying in many emerging market and...
Director of Human Resources at Vodafone Ghana, Hannah Ashiokai Akrong, has said businesses cannot go back to the way they were doing business before the pandemic even if the virus is contained.
Speaking at first 2020 edition of the B&FT’s Ghana’s Most Respected CEO’s Breakfast, Ms Akrong intimated that businesses...
With digital payment services and streaming platforms experiencing rapid growth during the coronavirus pandemic, governments in emerging markets are looking at introducing digital taxes as a way of expanding state revenue.
The pandemic and associated lockdowns have caused commerce to shift online, as consumer purchases are increasingly made through digital channels. Meanwhile, streaming...
Quietly, largely unappreciated and mostly overlooked, the global economy is kept afloat by a tireless professional workforce known as seafarers. As early as 4000 BC, humans employed the use of vessels to cart goods and people via the oceans which transcend nations and thus connecting us all. Today, from...
One advantage entrepreneurs of our time have is innovation. The technological world we live in today has created the platform for innovation, especially, among young people. And so, young men and women of our time who venture into entrepreneurship are making things through technology and innovation. That is why...
The Ghana Electrical Dealers Association (GEDA) on Wednesday engaged Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL) to disinfect its business space at Opera Square, Accra, also known as Cow Lane.
The exercise started around 7:00 a.m., and saw ZGL deploy one of its boom atomisers together with a disinfection crew with knapsack spraying...
In fulfilment of its commitment to reward and make life better for its activation agents, canvassers, retailers and freelancers across Ghana, Glo Mobile Ghana has begun to reward the top and very active performers.
The company in Accra on Monday started a nationwide presentation of various prizes to winners in...
The Institute of Human Resource Management Practitioners (IHRMP), Ghana has made a donation of some Personal Protective Equipment to the Labour Department which is under the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations.
The PPE donated comprised of 100 pieces of nose masks, some gallons of sanitizers and liquid soap, hand...