In recent months, several regions of the world have experienced extreme weather conditions; this ranges from floods in China, Europe and India to smoke from wildfires in Serbia that reached the North Pole for the first time in history. Similarly, in Greece and Turkey, the impact of wildfire has...
A software for purchasing and monitoring cocoa electronically is set to help drive the cash-lite agenda for financial inclusion in the country. Popularly called CocoaAsempa, the software has enhanced financial intermediation and inclusion amongst farmers and farmer groups.
There has indeed been some level of success with the mobile...
With the economy buckling under the weight of internal and external pressures - rising inflation, a fast-depreciating local currency, foreign investor attrition - as well as heightened calls for a return to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for assistance, government would be better off adopting, on its own, measures...
The Energy Commission has said the adoption of home-based technology is needed to guarantee attainment of universal access to clean cooking by 2030.
This is against estimates from the World Health Organisation (WHO) that some four million deaths are recorded every year from the toxicity produced by household air pollution...
Scents matter. We actually live in a world of scents. That enticing aroma of freshly-baked bread, that fresh scent of freshly-washed clothes, that exciting fragrance emanating from the interior of a new car, that inviting fragrance of fresh fruits are part of the human experience that adds some quality...
Africa. The lens through which we see and are taught about our continent shapes our understanding of, our treatment of and our relationship to it. Of course, it does. That is why history is taught through the lens of white supremacy. That teaching shapes how we think, and that...
Viable companies to be established under government’s ‘One district, One factory’ initiative will be showcased at the biggest world Expo to be held in Dubai, UAE in 2020, Yofi Grant, Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Investment Promotions Centre (GIPC) has said.
Asked by the B&FT whether the GIPC considers...
Ghana’s 2020 election is fast approaching. In Africa, Ghana has been touted as a model of democracy and good governance. Since 1992, the country has a record of seven successive relatively peaceful elections that have culminated into three successful transfers of power from one party to another in 2001,...
At a time when confidence in the nation’s financial sector is at its lowest ebb - as a fallout of the clean-up exercise undertaken by regulators of the space - the transparency and access to information offered by companies listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) offers a template...
We observed that, one of the most studied strategies in the recent years for weight loss is the ketogenic diet. Many studies have shown that this kind of nutritional approach has a solid physiological and biochemical basis and is able to induce effective weight loss along with improvement in...