Poverty
Inequality Higher In Ghana Than Ever
A UN Human Rights and Poverty expert, Philip Alston, has tasked the government of Ghana to address issues pertaining to...
UN Expert On Extreme Poverty In Ghana On Fact-Finding Mission
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Professor Philip Alston, is in the country...
Microfinance Institutions Laud BoG For Releasing List of Licenced Companies
The Association of Microfinance Institutions has applauded the Bank of Ghana (BoG) for publishing the list of licenced...
SDGs Key To Africa’s Future – Akufo-Addo
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has described the realisation of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development...
Ghana Among Top 10 African Countries Losing Resources Through Corruption
Ghana is among the top 10 countries losing resources that could transform the country for majority of its citizens....
Gap Between the Poor and Rich Widens-UNICEF Report
Latest statistics by UNICEF have shown that the gap between the rich and the poor in Ghana continues to widen due to a...
A Wounded and Bleeding Ghana/ Africa
“Politics is too important to be left to politicians alone.”—Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General. For many...
2nd Lady Moves To Help Reduce Poverty In Ghana
The Second Lady, Mrs. Samira Bawumia, has held talks with the International Poverty Reduction Centre in China (IPRCC)...
Minister Calls For More Investment In Children
Deputy Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Gifty Twum-Ampofo, has urged various stakeholders to...
World Poverty Could Be Cut In Half If…
A new UNESCO policy paper shows that the global poverty rate could be more than halved if all adults completed...
Aggrieved Microfinance Customers Cry To Nana Addo
Disgruntled customers of COM-AID Microfinance Limited in the Upper East Region, have appealed to President Nana...
More Investment Needed To Promote Child Rights
The SOS Children’s Villages marked the Day of the African Child on Friday, June 16, with a call on government to...
Experts Seek Ways To Consolidate West Africa’s Food Security
Stakeholders and Agricultural experts from the West African countries converged here on Tuesday for a Two-Day...
China Allocates More Funding For Poverty Relief
China's central government has allocated another 30.7 billion yuan to fund people living in poverty China's central...
Ghanaians Obsessed With Money
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...
Creative and Employable Skills For Life.
Progress by any other name is spelled W-O-R-K. And the earlier we let the nation’s youth appreciate the necessity for...
Sharp Rise In Number of Homeless In Los Angeles
The number of homeless people in Los Angeles County rose sharply by 23 percent in the last year despite increased...
Trying To Help Egypt’s Street Kids
Barefoot and wearing shabby clothes, the two-year-old wanders through the dirty streets of Cairo alongside her mother,...
Quality of Life On Rise For Many Africans, Report Says
Africans are seeing a steady improvement in the quality of their lives, with some countries even nearing world...