With the current fast-changing developments, policy makers need to know what is happening to the economy in real time, but they often must settle for data telling them what happened many weeks ago. And international trade, which links countries through a complex web of supply chains, is an area where...
Ghanaian businesswoman and entrepreneur Roberta Annan earlier this week launched a €100 million fund to channel investment into small and medium African creative and fashion enterprises. The Impact Fund for African Creatives (link is external) (IFFAC), will award grants of up to €50,000 to selected projects to accelerate development...
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has called on government to continue to support the growth of local industries, as the country seeks to create indigenous large companies that can rival their foreign counterparts. “And I believe government from now into the future, should work with the private sector. Government cannot...
Banks are in the business of assuming and managing risks and by virtue of this they are vulnerable to liquidity and solvency challenges. Since, banks rely on customers’ deposits that can be withdrawn on little or no notice, banks are prone bank-runs, where depositors seek to withdraw funds quickly...
A project designed to transform the agricultural value chain for food security and job & wealth creation within the Savannah zone has improved the livelihood of about 444,341 individuals and households in the Northern sector over the implementation period. With an investment value of US$19,498496 in grains, such as maize,...
SIGA and the Ghana Library Authority (GhLA) have teamed up to promote supply chain management and governance awareness among state-owned firms and agencies, SIGA recently revealed after a meeting of chairpersons. While donating 600 copies of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) certified supply chain management compendium, Hayford...
Boomplay, Africa’s largest music-streaming and download platform, marked its extended Mother’s Day celebrations by donating COVID-19 essentials and cleaning materials to the Maternity Ward of the Ridge Hospital (Greater Accra Regional Hospital) to support the hospital’s maternal health service delivery. The company also made donations to all mothers in...
“My great hope for us as young women is to start being kinder to ourselves so that we can be kinder to each other. To stop shaming ourselves and other people. ‘I am too fat, too skinny, and we’re all not enough’. This is life. Our bodies change. Our...
#BizGuide from The Accra Hub with TERRY MANTE See… Seize… Start… Secure Building anything from the ground up is not easy. Starting and running a business is definitely not a small burden. The well-known verdict about business start-ups is that 90% of them fail. Many start-up entrepreneurs make a lot of...
Solidaridad through its National Initiatives for Sustainable Climate-Smart Oil Palm Smallholders (NISCOPS) programme is helping to reclaim degraded mine sites in the Central Region of Ghana with oil palm. The initiative has become necessary due to threats to the livelihoods of farmers in that part of the country as a...