Strategic Sourcing and Industrialisation insights with Prof Douglas Boateng
Why understanding the total cost of a product can help to support long-term socio-economic development on the continent
As with most acquisitions in the developing world, unit price is often the first consideration of African buyers.
When comparing different, yet similar, products a...
Tullow Ghana Limited (TGL), operator of the Jubilee and Tweneboa, Enyenra and Ntomme (TEN) fields, is proud to announce a significant milestone of 300 million barrels of oil production from the Jubilee Field.
Tullow and its partners - GNPC, Kosmos, Anadarko and Petro SA - are proud to be part...
After years of just bubbling under, the ESG megatrend has finally opened the afterburners. At a time when the reminders of past flameouts by the fossil fuel sector have been amplified by the pandemic, the Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) momentum has reached fever-pitch with assets invested in...
Traditional banks need to quickly build a new digital core based on open and distributed technologies
In the banking industry, the stable running of IT systems is imperative. This is what drove the industry to begin IT construction relatively early and what continues to drive it to make significant investments...
The land is essential to our lives – we grow food on it and rely on it for economic growth and development. In sub-Saharan Africa, approximately 83% of people depend directly on the land for survival.
However, approximately two-thirds of the continent’s productive land is degraded – it has lost...
Around the world, there is a sweeping movement toward a global green energy transition. While world leaders have been urged by experts for years to start lowering greenhouse gas emissions and start battling climate change with a sense of urgency, the COVID-19 pandemic has, in its severe and continued...
Unlike tens of millions of people around the world who have contracted COVID-19 because of their poverty, bad luck, vulnerability as essential workers, or poor decisions by policymakers, US President Donald Trump’s infection is of his own making.
Trump’s disdain for science and his brazen disregard for public-health advice led...
The National Pension Regulatory Authority (NPRA) has said that one of its major aims is to regulate the pension sector in a manner that would lead to poverty reduction nationwide.
According to the NPRA, data available to the authority reveal that many people are faced with poverty issues immediately when...
The West Africa Competitiveness Programme (WACOMP) -Ghana, a programme funded by the European Union (EU) and implemented by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) through its support to the Global Shea Alliance (GSA) has trained 45 Shea based SMEs on branding and marketing in Accra .
The training was...
The Vice President, Alhaji Mahamud Bawumia, has visited persons affected by the resultant flood from the recent downpour in the North East region, to commiserate with them, as well as assess the extent of damage and the seek measures to ensure a return to normalcy within the shortest possible...