China has been playing an important role as Africa’s big investor. This can be attributed to the growing cooperation between China and Africa. The Forum on China-Africa Co-operation (FOCAC) was set up to build a solid material and physical foundation for the establishment of a China-African community with a...
How do you navigate your way through a location you are not familiar with? This calls for the need of a directional map that shows you your current location and give you the opportunity to choose your destination. The lack and/or inadequate financial strategy we put in place puts...
As part of its Birthday Stars initiative, Vodafone Ghana Foundation, has celebrated Mothers’ Day with children and staff of Porter’s Village in Dodowa, Accra. The event featured celebrities including Wutah, Beverly Afaglo, Ama K. Abebrese, and Rev. Mary Ghansah, all of whose birthdays fall on various days in the month...
The two-world leading producers of cocoa, Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire have agreed to the establishment of an office, in Ghana, responsible for the implementation of the Living Income Differential (LID), a major cocoa initiative aimed at addressing the poor living conditions among cocoa farmers. The signing of the bilateral agreement...
Low productivity is becoming a serious challenge for businesses in Ghana, impacting adversely on enterprise competitiveness, especially in the wake of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), Director, Industrial Relations of the Ghana Employers Association (GEA), Joseph Kingsley Amuah, has said. “It is sad to note that productivity and...
Ghana and Guyana have signed a ‘Framework Agreement on Cooperation’ designed to actualise the growing strategic partnership between the two countries. Among others, the parties to the Framework Agreement seek to promote cooperation with the objective of contributing to the development of their resources - by making efforts to ensure...
There’s a pandemic spreading fast round the globe, that’s incredibly infectious. And for a change, I am not thinking of COVID-19. No, I refer to conspiracy theories. You must be sheltered indeed if you have not heard claims that covid-19 is either a result of 5G mobile masts weakening immune...
In addressing the country’s current debt, which is at an unsustainable level, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has announced that government will implement a debt exchange programme to address challenges identified in the debt portfolio. Provisional debt data as at end-September 2022 show a significant increase in the country’s public debt,...
Zeepay, United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and MoneyGram have announced a new additional service offered by Zeepay and UNCDF exclusively for MoneyGram's customers to complement the life of the remitter and their friends and families back home. The service is designed as a Micro Insurance product - known as...
The greatest challenge confronting the economy is how to create decent jobs for the millions who are desperately seeking them, the Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC) has lamented. In a statement titled Proposals for the 2018 budget and economic policies of government, the union said: “We expect the 2018 budget...