Faced with an unprecedented shock of collapsing global demand and commodity prices, capital outflows, major supply chain disruptions and a generalized drop in global trade, many emerging markets and developing economies’ (EMDEs) currencies have weakened sharply. Will these currency movements support the recovery of these economies?
Building on a new...
Not a day seems to pass without further evidence of the mounting economic tensions between China and the United States, the world’s two largest economies. This growing antagonism will have a bigger immediate impact on China than on the US, as bilateral decoupling fuels a broader ongoing process of...
What do the Calabrian organized crime syndicate ‘Ndrangheta, Hertz, China’s Sichuan Trust, and the US Federal Reserve have in common? They are all deeply entangled in a financial system that has turned credit intermediation into a debt mint that produces assets to enrich investors but leaves households, firms, and...
Shea Network Ghana (SNG), a multi-stakeholder non- profit organisation, has stressed the need for stakeholders to demonstrate commitment towards improving the weak policies and regulations affecting the governance of the shea sector as the absence of it has contributed to the slow growth of the sector.
According to the communique...
When the wrath of COVID-19 began to ravage world economies, take lives and alter our way of life, many thought it was just a temporal occurrence. Six months down the line, we are still keeping social distance, wearing our face masks, and regularly washing or sanitising our hands. As...
The 1992 Constitution provides three unambiguous answers to the question of Citizenship by birth.
The 1st is found in Article 6(1), which provides:
“(1) Every person who, on the coming into force of this Constitution, is a citizen of Ghana by law shall continue to be a citizen of Ghana.”
This provision...
The global population is projected to increase to 9.8billion by 2050 –approximately, a 30 percent increase from the current 7.6billion. Numerous research articles posit that to meet the demands of the growing population, global agricultural production will have to increase by 70 percent - which is enormous if you...
The outbreak of COVID-19 globally will remain one of the major events that shaped the 21st century and thus it is the hope and desire of everyone to see humanity triumph once again over a common adversary. Many countries around the globe are resorting to diverse ways to combat...
The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG), SEND Ghana, the International Budget Partnership (IBP), the Voice for Change Partnership Program, GROW partners and like-minded CSOs are proposing the reliance of agriculture as the tool for reviving Ghana’s economy after COVID-19.
Since the onset of the COVID-19, Ghana has not only...