US$300m for Q1 alone
Economist says outlook is positive
As part of measures to ensure the economy has a stable local currency for the year, and especially in the first quarter when demand for forex is high, the Bank of Ghana plans to inject a whopping US$775million through its...
My favourite definition of ‘entrepreneurship’ is “the creation or extraction of value”. Simple, right?
It means wherever you are, if you are creating extra value for yourself or bringing out more worth in whatever you do, then you’re entrepreneuring! …if that’s a word. It means an entrepreneur need not only...
Member of the Ghana Covid-19 Taskforce, and outgone Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu has indicated that government and the relevant stakeholders are still engaging on measures to contain the spread of Coronavirus, even as the numbers in the country have surged recently.
As part of measures being taken, he...
The 2020 Mastercard Index of Women Entrepreneurs (MIWE) has once again ranked Uganda (39.6%), Botswana (38.5%) and Ghana (36.5%) as the world’s three leading economies having the most women business owners. The Index’s benchmark indicator is calculated as a percentage of total businesses owners, and all three countries have...
More than 100 years ago, Lord Luggard said that "Africa 's problems can be summarized in terms of transport," and 100 years later, transport, especially urban transport, remains one of Africa's biggest problems.
The railway sector had not seen any major improvement since its creation by the colonial government in...
Most Mitsubishi owners have returned safely after their annual holidays, taking their vehicles on new adventures.
“Now that you are back, let’s look at what you did and how to not only clean your vehicle, but prepare it for the rest of the year’s more average everyday use,” says Francois...
When President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated next week, he will quickly move to transform most dimensions of US policy. A glaring exception is China. But if Biden maintains outgoing President Donald Trump’s confrontational approach to the world’s second-largest economy, he will come to regret it.
While Biden may be less...
It is rather unfortunate that now that schools have re-opened after a long lull as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the Teachers and Education Workers’ Union (TEWU) have embarked on an industrial action over what the union terms ‘unfair treatment by government’.
We understand that for about two years,...
Zoomlion Ghana Limited has undertaken a disinfestation exercise targeted at getting rid of pests and other disease causing organisms at the Kumasi Airport.
The menace of rodents, crawling and flying insects has become a conduit for spreading diseases and of major concerns for officials and travellers who use the airport.
Some...
Africa’s share of global trade was 2.7% in 2019, below the 4% figure of the 1970s
Global trade expected to contract by 9.2% this year, having fallen by 2.9% in 2019; Africa’s share of global trade was 2.7% in 2019, below the 4% figure of the 1970s; informal cross-border trade...