Until recently, China was unmistakably trying to be a hegemon in the image of the United States, increasingly complementing its growing hard power with soft power. But China seems to have missed its opportunity to build a serious rival to, or even supplant, the existing world economic order fashioned...
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Data made available by the International Monetary Fund show that COVID-19 will cripple the global economy and growth will decline by 3 percent.
Other bodies such as US-based CB Insights is also projecting global startup financing will take a hit, with private market funding in the first quarter of 2020...
Speaking of millions of millionaires, I am not blind to the billions of people currently suffering from the harsh economic effects of this pandemic. I am merely recognising the fact that I can confidently say that you reading this article right now are into some form of ‘business’, or...
By Kizito CUDJOE, Sefwi Chirano
The chiefs and people of Sefwiman Traditional Area have rousingly welcomed the establishment of the Chirano Sefwiman Foundation by the Chirano Gold Mine Limited (CGML), to further boost local development and the livelihoods of the people, in the host communities of the Mine.
The foundation is...
By Barry EICHENGREEN
COVID-19 is not going away, and other dangerous viruses may be coming. This means it’s time to face the grim truth: many of the pandemic’s effects on our economies and societies will be persistent, even permanent.
Some of these changes are already evident. There is less demand for...
… Providing vital power infrastructure to meet dev.’s needs
Very few people across the world expected to begin the year 2020 locked up in their homes, and faced with restrictions on some of their social freedoms. While many heard the news about the soaring coronavirus infections in China in December...
We should pay closer attention to the interactions between politics, economics, and other realms
By Jeffry FRIEDEN
The COVID-19 pandemic strikingly illustrates the intersection of politics, economics, and other considerations. Public health experts have long warned that the world was likely to face a major pandemic and called for greater preparedness....
Even though countries in Africa are endowed with many natural resources, most of them are poor and are beset by numerous problems. They have not been able to find ways to transform their huge potentials into reality. Since the attainment of independence from the late 1950s to the present...
…skills and training the fourth component lagging in women and youth empowerment in Africa
By Scofray Nana Yaw YEBOAH
Africa’s population is increasing and as it stands from UN population data, Africa’s population is around 1.3 billion with the median age of 19.7. Out of this figure, the World Bank estimate...