Some customers of ASN Financial Services Limited say they are losing confidence in the central bank over its apparent lose of control over the financial system.
The customers who have been investing...
A UN Human Rights and Poverty expert, Philip Alston, has tasked the government of Ghana to address issues pertaining to growing inequality in order to eradicate poverty. According to Mr Alston, Ghana...
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Professor Philip Alston, is in the country for a 10 day human rights fact-finding visit. This is to assess government’s...
The Association of Microfinance Institutions has applauded the Bank of Ghana (BoG) for publishing the list of licenced microfinance institutions in the country. In a move by BoG to guide customers in...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has described the realisation of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as an investment in the future of the youth and children of the African...
Ghana is among the top 10 countries losing resources that could transform the country for majority of its citizens. These amounts, quoted in billions of US dollars, include proceeds of corruption and...
Latest statistics by UNICEF have shown that the gap between the rich and the poor in Ghana continues to widen due to a lack of inclusive development. The statistics show that the Northern, Upper East...
“Politics is too important to be left to politicians alone.”—Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General. For many years now, I have been concerned about the plunder and pillage, the open thievery,...
The Second Lady, Mrs. Samira Bawumia, has held talks with the International Poverty Reduction Centre in China (IPRCC) to join Ghana in the fight against poverty. Since the founding of the People’s...
Deputy Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Gifty Twum-Ampofo, has urged various stakeholders to mobilize all available resources to partner government in accomplishing Sustainable...
A new UNESCO policy paper shows that the global poverty rate could be more than halved if all adults completed secondary school. Yet, new data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) show...
Disgruntled customers of COM-AID Microfinance Limited in the Upper East Region, have appealed to President Nana Akufo-Addo to direct the Builsa South District Chief Executive, Daniel Kwame Gariba, to...
The SOS Children’s Villages marked the Day of the African Child on Friday, June 16, with a call on government to guarantee a zero-tolerance approach towards child rights violations in Ghana while...
Stakeholders and Agricultural experts from the West African countries converged here on Tuesday for a Two-Day consultative meeting seeking ways to consolidate progress made so far on food security...
China's central government has allocated another 30.7 billion yuan to fund people living in poverty China's central government has allocated another 30.7 billion yuan (about 4.52 billion U. S....
Mone...in the West, one maybe hears the word money four or five times a day. On the streets of Ghana, it can be heard up to 100 times a day. Over time, a separation in peoples' minds has been created...
Progress by any other name is spelled W-O-R-K. And the earlier we let the nation’s youth appreciate the necessity for productive work, the better it will serve Ghana and the rest of Africa. In...
The number of homeless people in Los Angeles County rose sharply by 23 percent in the last year despite increased efforts to tackle the crisis, according to a new count released on Wednesday. The Los...
Barefoot and wearing shabby clothes, the two-year-old wanders through the dirty streets of Cairo alongside her mother, who has also spent all her life without a home of her own. For Egypt's...
Africans are seeing a steady improvement in the quality of their lives, with some countries even nearing world averages, says a wide-ranging report out Monday on the continent's future. While large...
