Building and sustaining a customer-centric culture to align with market needs
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic’s effects on tourism have been very significant, leading to a fall in the number of visitors over the past year or so. It is reported that in 2020 over 39,000 people visited the country...
Certainly, it can be described as an irreversible historical landmark as United States President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his administration are set to renew their commitments and hold discussions relating to the global economy, democracy and governance, climate change, health and security, women, youth, and education during the...
US president Joe Biden is hosting African leaders at this week’s summit, as a group. This has its advantages. The 50 African leaders have the opportunity to articulate their common interests and adopt common positions at the gathering in Washington, DC.
The priorities they should be focusing on are the following.
African...
Under the chairmanship of U.S. President Joe Biden, the second edition of the U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit held mid-December has practically registered significant successes. The first summit was in 2014 during the presidency of Barack Obama; the administration officials in reports have, however, acknowledged regret for the long gap.
The landmark...
Many in the global development community are pushing for rich countries to transfer large sums of money to developing countries to help them shift to cleaner energy without impeding economic growth. This advocacy raises important economic questions that do not receive enough attention in the mainstream press.
Consider Africa. The...
The ability to identify your hobby and translate it into a passion is one of the alternative ways of becoming self-reliant and a job creator, not a seeker. This week’s Inspiring Startups interacts with an enthused entrepreneur, Dr. Iddi Mohammed Faried, who despite being a trained doctor has been...
There is absolutely no need going about praising people for restoration when they are the perpetrators of the deterioration at hand in the first place. So admittedly, World War I isn’t necessarily a good place to start from when discussing the instances that nations have proven themselves the phoenix—the...
Whether it occurs in governmental organizations, (e.g., a minister who was pivotal in the election of her/his President or is a close relative of the President), non-governmental organizations (a politically-connected local hire whose relative is the supervising minister of the NGO), for-profit organizations (a relative of the CEO/owner), employees...
Property taxes are the most progressive tax government can use to mobilise revenue for development. Though the 2023 budget makes some new innovations in mobilising property rates through a Unified Property Rate Platform programme to be deployed by the Ghana Revenue Authority, government needs to take a critical look at...