The COVID-19 pandemic is a blow to an already fragile global economic outlook. The health crisis, sharp downturn in activity, and turmoil in global financial markets caught emerging market and developing economies at a bad moment. The past decade has seen the largest, fastest, and most broad-based increase in...
A microfinance company based in the Western Region, Boin Microfinance Limited, has cited the Receiver, Eric Nana Nipah, for abuse of power and disregard for the law as the company’s assets are being confiscated despite court order stopping it from doing so.
According to management of the company, the Accra...
Innovation is the engine that drives contemporary economies. Living standards are determined by productivity growth, which in turn depends on the introduction and dissemination of new technologies that allow an ever-wider variety of goods and services to be produced with fewer and fewer of our planet’s resources.
Policymakers and the...
The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked several changes in the way we live, work and do business. The crisis has accelerated digitisation plans in several organisations. This is an opportunity for leaders to accelerate the organisational transformation needed to thrive in a rapidly changing world.
At TEMPLE Advisory, we have always...
As various countries contend with a second wave of COVID-19 outbreaks, many emerging markets are pinning their hopes on a vaccine that will allow them to confidently reopen their economies without the fear of health services being overwhelmed.
With 20m people infected globally and 735,000 virus-related deaths as of August 10, it...
The United States, Brazil, and India have surged ahead of the rest of the world in terms of the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases, with no peak in sight. They (and fourth-place Russia) have one thing in common: macho leaders with authoritarian personalities.
There are notable differences in how these...
We were recently told by the Energy Minister, John Peter Amewu, that the 3% levy charged all consumers of electricity for street lighting generated GH¢273.9million for the years 2018 and 2019.
And out of that amount, the minister stated, GH¢134,266,116 was collected in 2018 and GH¢139,610,716 the following year.
Per the...
Ghana’s installed power capacity is about 4,399MW, of which 22.5WM is renewable energy against a demand of about 2,700MW. Initially, the country intended to develop and utilise renewable energy and energy-efficiency technologies to achieve a 10% penetration of national electricity production by 2020.
By the end of 2017, the strategy...
The Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) has trained agriculture extension officers in the Central Region on the dangers and management of aflatoxins - natural poisons produced by the fungus Aspergillus flavus and several other related species in food items.
The exercise dubbed, trainer of trainers, saw 50 agriculture extension officers benefit from training...
A newly introduced Pro-Vitamin 'A' orange maize variety that can help boost the immune system of its consumers has been introduced onto the market.
Dr. Manfred B. Ewool, a Senior Research Scientist and Maize Breeder at the Council for Scientific Industrial Research (CSIR), Crops Research Institute (CRI) in an interview...