The 2020 Mastercard Index of Women Entrepreneurs (MIWE) has once again ranked Uganda (39.6%), Botswana (38.5%) and Ghana (36.5%) as the world’s three leading economies having the most women business owners. The Index’s benchmark indicator is calculated as a percentage of total businesses owners, and all three countries have...
More than 100 years ago, Lord Luggard said that "Africa 's problems can be summarized in terms of transport," and 100 years later, transport, especially urban transport, remains one of Africa's biggest problems. The railway sector had not seen any major improvement since its creation by the colonial government in...
Most Mitsubishi owners have returned safely after their annual holidays, taking their vehicles on new adventures. “Now that you are back, let’s look at what you did and how to not only clean your vehicle, but prepare it for the rest of the year’s more average everyday use,” says Francois...
When President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated next week, he will quickly move to transform most dimensions of US policy. A glaring exception is China. But if Biden maintains outgoing President Donald Trump’s confrontational approach to the world’s second-largest economy, he will come to regret it. While Biden may be less...
It is rather unfortunate that now that schools have re-opened after a long lull as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the Teachers and Education Workers’ Union (TEWU) have embarked on an industrial action over what the union terms ‘unfair treatment by government’. We understand that for about two years,...
Zoomlion Ghana Limited has undertaken a disinfestation exercise targeted at getting rid of pests and other disease causing organisms at the Kumasi Airport. The menace of rodents, crawling and flying insects has become a conduit for spreading diseases and of major concerns for officials and travellers who use the airport. Some...
Africa’s share of global trade was 2.7% in 2019, below the 4% figure of the 1970s Global trade expected to contract by 9.2% this year, having fallen by 2.9% in 2019; Africa’s share of global trade was 2.7% in 2019, below the 4% figure of the 1970s; informal cross-border trade...
Allianz Ghana has introduced another product onto the market, the Allianz Eduflex Plan -- a savings plan that provides financial security by accumulating funds for the sole purpose of funding the education of the client’s children. The Eduflex plan also allows the policyholder to choose a guaranteed death benefit that...
- NETRIGHT shares insights from its advocacy in 2020 Since March 12th 2020, when the first case of COVID-19 was recorded in Ghana, all of Ghana’s institutions have had to adapt to its reality. The Ghana Statistical Service has conducted a number of surveys to give us insight into the impact...
Government is preparing to meet fruit and vegetable exporters who may be negatively impacted as the United Kingdom (UK) prepares to implement the provisions of its exit from the European Union (Brexit). Some banana exporters have told the B&FT the UK is likely to increase its import duty for fruit...