What actions can African countries, healthcare providers and healthcare organisations take to improve the provision of health services to the continent's 1.4 billion citizens? Africa faces the dual challenge of poor healthcare systems and a high burden of diseases, especially among poorer communities. According to a McKinsey report, the continent...
Last week, I shared thoughts on the 5 C’s for a great employee (Competence, Character, Culture, Calling and Chemistry). Over the next five weeks, I will be expanding on each one of the C’s, not only on what they mean but also on strategies for assessing whether the employee...
One of the strategies of most tax organisations - including OECD, ATAF, WATAF and Oxfam - has been to proffer best practices for reducing tax evasion and abuse of tax incentives to the barest minimum. This has necessitated most of these organisations to offer technical support to countries -...
Recently in Ghana, some sellers have increased the price of their goods by as much as 300 percent. The inflation rate in Ghana as measured by Combined Consumer Price Index as at October 2022, was 40.4 percent. Inflation is a perennial problem that has plagued Ghana. Inflation may be considered...
“The one nearest to the enemy is the real leader.” – Ugandan proverb My dear Christian, I know we are still welcoming a heart-warming New Year and we are all into feeling good and having a positive attitude. We need to maintain this momentum all-year-round. However, I have had to reach...
It is simply essential for African businesses to grow for Africa to develop. Businesses are the basis of sustenance for some 203 million households and 1.4 billion people on the continent. Many key problems that plague the achievment better lives and livelihoods for people - like high unemployment, poor...
Fragmentation could make it even more difficult to help many vulnerable emerging and developing economies that have been hard hit by multiple shocks As policymakers and business leaders gather at the World Economic Forum in Davos, they are facing a Gordian knot of challengesAs policymakers and business leaders gather at the World Economic Forum...
Recently in Ghana, some sellers have increased the price of their goods by as much as 300 percent. The inflation rate in Ghana as measured by Combined Consumer Price Index as at October 2022, was 40.4 percent. Inflation is a perennial problem that has plagued Ghana. Inflation may be considered...
Tracing the history of Transfer Pricing (TP) has not been a small task with some writers tracing it way back to 1918/19 just at the end of The First World War. It was the first time when the different nations in the world collaborated to form “League of Nations”...
The Constitution is said to be sui generis among the body of laws. It is the fundamental law of the law of the land from which the validity of all other laws, commissions and omissions can be ascertained. Besides its legal effect, the Constitution performs a more remarkable role. In...