Last week, I highlighted a series of concerns currently being expressed among some bank staff working in the digital banking era. Their concerns mostly harbour around the positive but intrusive 4th Industrial Revolution where most transactions are powered by artificial intelligence, and the power of collaboration with fin-techs is...
The African continent has made steady progress over the last four decades - surviving high levels of poverty, various natural disasters (such as drought and floods), diseases, political instability and high levels of migration. And when the health pandemic struck, Africa’s resilience was tested yet again.
COVID-19 pushed millions of...
I have been following expositions by Minister for Trade and Industries, Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen about his vision to industrialize Ghana through the NPP’s One District One Factory (1D1F) policy as well as his role in drawing up and seeing to the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade...
VAT constitutes one of the great sources of tax revenues, yet it’s the most abused or evaded by taxpayers. An analysis by the Africa Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) on VAT Fraud Manifestation and Typologies in Africa established, among others, how the African VAT system is under threat as a...
Let’s not pretend that we aren’t worried about the current global economic happenings which have thrown all predictions into disarray.
By this, I am referring to the decline in global economic growth; the rise of public debt above sustainable levels across major economies, especially in emerging markets; the degree of...
“Priorities Maxwell!!! There are increased fuel prices, higher cost of living, rising inflation, not to mention COVID, Monkeypox and other health issues and you choose to write about “noise”?? Well……yes. It’s been on my mind ever since moving to the countryside and there is plenty of literary material around...
With the New Patriotic Party’s internal elections gradually getting to the summit, the focus is more on the Presidential Primary than any other. More as ever, we hear people discussing who will get the nod in the Presidential Primary next year.
The discussions are based on who is most capable...