The African Union Strategy for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (GEWE) maintains that when women are fully empowered in all spheres and have rights to own and manage businesses, they will contribute significantly to promoting innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives. Studies have shown that Africa’s informal sector accounts for 85% of...
Most Ghanaians think about Israel as the religious “promised” land that the Jews were led to from Africa more than two thousand years ago. The modern State of Israel however, is more than just an epicenter of faith and culture. It is an advanced economic powerhouse holding incalculable promise as...
…as wallet accounts grow to 1.2bn in 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred the growth of mobile money transactions across the world, which has resulted in a 65 percent increment in transactions and brings the total value to US$12.7billion for 2020, the GSMA’s annual State of the Industry Report on...
– the story of Harriet Ampofo My name is Harriet Ampofo , 27 years old and an agricultural student who graduated from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in 2016. In 2019 I had the opportunity to travel to Israel after I had enrolled in Practical Agricultural Course in...
For Israel, a country that is geographically small, remote from major global markets and with almost no natural resources, innovation has become the most valuable national asset, crucial to its economic prosperity. To advance its ingrained entrepreneurial spirit, Israel established a unique ecosystem of innovation, where government provides regulatory measures...
Krif Ghana Limited has touted its "exceptional" customer relations", promising to do even better as businesses struggle amid the COVID pandemic. Krif has attributed its 35 years of survival to the quality of relationship it has enjoyed with customers, described as a "win win affair" The company announced growth in 2020,...
A short background to put my topic in perspective will be to elaborate on the particular firms I am referring to although my thinking applies to all firms but I concede that not all firms can afford to apply these principles. On that note, I am referring to very large...
The Adansi Akrofuom District Assembly has distributed about 4,000 coconut seedlings to 150 farmers to improve coconut production in the district. The free distribution of seedlings was in line with government’s Planting for Export and Rural Development (PERD) initiative launched in 2019, which is aimed at creating a sustainable raw...
Employees of the Risk Function Unit at Absa Bank Ghana have donated essential items and personal protective equipment (PPE) to the Ghana Prisons Service’s Senior Correctional Centre, formerly known as the Borstal Institute for Juveniles, to support the Centre’s measures taken in the fight against COVID-19. The items donated were...
Attempted Prophecies ‘When you are dying you say we are dying.’ Literally translated, that is how this whole thing of inquiring of persons, institutions, businesses, countries, etc. how badly affected by the pandemic they have been, sounds to me like. I, myself, have written one survey to that effect—a business...