Given the deficit at hand, a 20 per cent cut in expenditure from the 2022 budget won’t contribute significantly to stabilising the economy but will rather affect infrastructural development - thereby negatively impacting growth, economist and finance lecturer at the University of Ghana, Dr George Domfe, has said.
His comments...
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I am always first to admit that upon returning home from London to Accra (Tema, to be precise), I was so eager yet so unknowingly green. I set sail with a cargo of dreams and ‘book-long’ strategies, ready to conquer the vast ocean of the African Business...
Member of Parliament for New Juaben South and Chairman of the Finance Committee in Parliament, Mark Assibey-Yeboah, has defended government’s decision to suspend the Fiscal Responsibility Act which requires the deficit to be kept at a maximum of 5 percent of GDP - citing the pandemic as a reason...
Amenfifarms Ghana Limited has cut the sod for a starch processing factory under One District One Factory (1D1F) programme at Wassa Akropong in the Wassa Amenfi East Municipality in the Western Region.
The company is an agro industry player focused entity on cultivating cassava with the aim of adding value...
Education Lead at the Mastercard Foundation, Kimberly Kerr, has described as good news the current wave of curricula reforms which are being implemented, particularly at the secondary school level.
Citing a recently released report by the Foundation, ‘Secondary Education in Africa: The future of work’, she stated that these reforms...
The Board of KGL Technology Limited, in consultation with the leadership of both the National Lottery Authority(NLA) and Association of Lotto Marketing Companies(ALMC), has partnered to set up a welfare fund to assist lottery operators.
The welfare fund is primarily aimed at availing money to be accessed solely by all...
The youth are not our enemies; let us remember this before we do anything rash such as using brute force to quell their protests. They are our children that have come of age. Their flaws are our failings as parents. All over the world, the youth have broken ranks...
About 15,228 beneficiaries have received support both in grants and loans from the NBSSI/ Mastercard Foundation COVID-19 Recovery and Resilience Program (Nkosuo).
The program forms part of a partnership between the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) and the Mastercard Foundation and focuses on supporting MSMEs and start-ups in...
The term “social impact era” may very well be new to some and very familiar to others. It first began to gain global popularity during or around the time of the global financial crises between the years 2007 and 2009. These financial crises occurred when banking systems and global...
In a first of its kind offer, telecom operator AirtelTigo has launched a ‘Free Morning Offer’ to give new and existing customers free AirtelTigo to AirtelTigo calls from 5am to 10am every day for six months.
In addition to the free calls, new customers will also get to enjoy free...