…Impact assessment and mitigation measures
In December last year, a novel coronavirus was identified as the cause of a significant number of human cases of a respiratory disease in China.
The outbreak was on the 11th of March declared as a global pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and was...
Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta has observed that moving away from cash helps the country advance toward achieving many of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Government has launched three new policy initiatives designed to deepen financial inclusion and accelerate digital payments, in line with government’s vision of building a payment system...
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, little emphasis was placed on food security as analysts were more concerned about disruptions to manufacturing value chains, foreign direct investment and slowdown of economic figures.
It is already known that Africa is vulnerable to food insecurity with adverse climatic conditions, economic shocks,...
Mobile phone data provided by Vodafone Ghana has offered an insight into the huge impact that the outbreak of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel Coronavirus and the subsequent policy measures have had on the movement of people in Ghana with aggregated and anonymized location data showing that...
The National Hospitality Association of Ghana (NHAG) has appealed to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to consider re-opening the restaurants for business as a matter of utmost urgency.
Considering the fact that the sector has borne the brunt of efforts by government to curtail spread of coronavirus in the country,...
MTN Ghana has re-opened all of its service centers across the country some of which were closed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Considering the increasing number of customers who visit the service centers and as a result of the lifting of movement restrictions, MTN has also revised its...
The Deputy Ashanti Regional Police Commander, ACP Agyeman Adjem, has called on all police officers in the region to provide a friendly environment for Zoomlion Ghana Limited to fumigate and disinfect their various offices and homes to minimise spread of the novel coronavirus.
He reminded the Command of recent reports...
The Forestry Commission has rated Kete Krachi Timber Recovery Limited (KKTR) - a wholly Ghanaian-owned company operating the Lake Volta timber recovery concession - as one of the leading exporters of timber products by species for Ghana in December 2019.
In its Export Performance Report for December2019 released earlier this...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged potential beneficiaries of the GH¢1billion loan support scheme set aside for businesses to endeavour to invest the monies in their work and bring the economy back on track from impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.
According to the president, the outbreak of coronavirus has...
Cassava Fintech International (CFI), a subsidiary of Econet Global, has announced the release of ‘Sasai TeamTalk’ - a voice and video conferencing service that takes up to 20 people on one call.
The service, coming at a time many countries have imposed restrictions on movement to curb spread of the...