Co-Authored by Dr. Maxwell Ampong & Rya G. Kuewor
GLOBAL TOPICS AT DAVOS 2022
The World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting, took place this past week from May 22nd to 26th, 2022. The Agenda for the meeting was to contemplate and discuss current global contexts and explore and fashion new (global) collaborations....
If you were scanning both the traditional and social media landscape carefully this month, you might have noticed that the Absa Bank National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ) competition is enjoying great coverage due to the ongoing regional championships happening all over the country.
Since it first gained prominence on...
Professor Emeritus Stephen Adei, a Ghanaian educationist, writer, economist, and former rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), has launched the long-awaited book, 'The GIMPA Story', as well as two other books titled: 'Living by Strategy' and 'Managing Your Life.'
The GIMPA Story, transforming a public...
The 2021 HR Practitioner of the Year, Hannah Ashiokai Akrong, has said the role of Human Resource practitioners is focusing more on employees because of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to her, HR management has deployed a complex set of competencies to deal with the change in work patterns within a...
Five Ghanaian financial service providers have officially launched their newly developed financial products as part of efforts to reduce Micro Small Medium Enterprises’ (MSMEs) inability to access financial services in the country.
The products by the financial service providers include: Madwuma Ntoboa Savings Plan and Nkosuo Bosea Loan Solution by...
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH has launched a new funding scheme - develoPPP Ventures - in Ghana specifically for start-ups.
On behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), develoPPP Ventures supports the growth phase of innovative Ghanaian small and growing businesses (SGBs)...
The Managing Director of Consolidated Bank Ghana Ltd. (CBG), Daniel Wilson Addo, has announced that CBG is expanding its Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) capabilities by partnering with the new Development Bank Ghana (DBG) to deliver technical and financial support to the sector.
CBG defines SMEs as small businesses with...
GCB Bank PLC has signed US$13.7million credit facility and one million euro grant financing agreements to support local businesses toward the development of energy efficiency and renewable energy projects.
The agreements and projects are part of the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources and Energy Finance (SUNREF) Ghana, aimed at promoting...
Vice-President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has urged capital market stakeholders within the sub-region to ride on the back of the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) as they seek to further integration, describing the platform as the most important monetary development in Africa since 1960.
PAPSS, which was formally launched in...
Africa's leading provider of electronic banking and payments services, eTranzact, has appointed Mr. John Apea to head the company as its new Chief Executive Officer in Ghana.
The appointment became effective on October 18, 2021 and will see Mr. Apea leading eTranzact’s leadership team in Ghana while implementing key strategies...