Introduction:
What does WASH stand for? Simply: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH).
The importance of WASH in the development of children’s health and life sustainability across the globe cannot be looked at with human and policy insensitivity. WASH initiatives should, therefore, remain critical to any child development settings either within the...
With a huge potential for a robust fisheries supply system that includes a marine coastline of 550 kilometres, abundant fresh water bodies, dams and reservoirs, Ghana is able to meet just a little over half of her yearly fish requirements of 771000 metric tonnes. The about 40 percent shortfall...
According to amongst others, the Harvard Law School and Negotiations Group, the importance of negotiation skills can’t be overstated. To them having “negotiation skills hold the key to getting ahead in the workplace, business performance and productivity, with economic growth and development, resolving conflicts, and creating real value…”.
Similarly, Queensland...
In the past, having a strong brand name and reputation was enough to keep customers happy. Today, they crave personalization and convenience in every interaction they have with a company across different channels. Positive word-of-mouth is now of paramount importance, as it contributes to leads and facilitates conversions, whereas...
Last year, I heard the Minister of Finance making bold statement saying that government is “creating one million jobs” in the next four years. But I have always advocated that the private sector, if equipped, has more potential to create more jobs than the public sector. A typical example...
Bancassurance is now a key product or distribution line in the insurance sector in recent times. Bancassurance commonly means selling insurance products under the roof of a bank. Though bancassurance had its roots in France in the 1980s and spread across different parts of Continental Europe, it has spread...
In the last few decades, countries across the African continent have been experiencing a rapid exodus of people from rural areas to urban centres. The region’s burgeoning urbanisation presents an episode of bittersweet revelation for urban planners and policymakers. Why is that so? With cities accounting for the lion’s...
In May 2022, the government of Ghana through the Ministry of Finance passed the Electronic Transaction levy (E-Levy) in the bid to rope in revenue to boost the country’s economy and address the challenges the economy is facing but two months after its inception the E-levy seems to have...