Children are more than twice as likely as adults to live in extreme poverty, according to a new analysis from the World Bank Group and the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). The...
Investors across the globe have been urged to explore the large pool of opportunities in the West Africa sub-region. According to Senior Partner and Head of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Ghana, ?Mr...
The World Bank President says he does not think Ghana and other African countries with high debt levels are at risk of falling into debt distress or “Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC)”...
A former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre, Robert Ahomka-Lindsay says Ghana is not yet an attractive investment destination. He was commenting on the recent World Bank...
Book Review: Kings, Priests, and Kinsmen: Essays on Ga Culture and Society, by E. A. Ammah, edited by Marion Kilson (Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2016). The thesis of the book is to inform readers...
The saved about 400 gigawatts of electricity power within 3 years of the Refrigerator Energy Efficiency Program. This was announced by the Mr Kofi Agyarko, the Head of Energy Efficiency Promotion and...
Ten countries (Benin, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, the United Republic of Tanzania and Uganda) met in a two-day technical workshop from 22 to 23 September 2016...
Regulatory reforms and the ease of doing business matter for long term economic growth and prosperity in Ghana, Mr Jim McAlpine, Country Director of United Kingdom's Department for International...
In 2009, Kosmos Energy, a small oil exploration company in Texas, wished to cash in on its discovery of an oil field off the coast of Ghana — one of the largest found in West Africa in a decade....
For more than two decades, Russia has been struggling to regain its Soviet-era economic influence, but such efforts have hit stumbling blocks which policy experts and Russian authorities themselves...
Despite the clear potential to boost rice production at the regional level in Africa, most countries on the Continent continue to rely heavily on imports for meeting their rice consumption needs,...
CHALLENGE: According to a 2015 KPMG report, banking penetration is as low as 36% in some of the larger African economies. SOLUTION: Digital Transformation can drive adoption of banking services by...
Ghana’s headline inflation is likely to slow further downwards raising prospects of a series of interest rate cuts as the government moves to spur growth. The country’s headline inflation rose to...
The recent press statement by the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) regarding the issues of accreditation, promotion of university lecturers in Ghana, and the publication of academic...
Ghana has received a US$700-million guarantee from the World Bank for its Offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP)- Sankofa gas project ahead of anticipated oil and gas production in 2017 and 2018,...
Gabon's newly re-elected president, Ali Bongo, said Saturday that he would seek to form a new government based on a national political dialogue that will "most likely" include leading opposition...
Ghana could become the fourth biggest oil producer in sub-Saharan Africa by 2020 once two new offshore fields come on stream, to push total output above 240,000 barrels per day (bpd), pan-African...
More than $1 billion in debt and financing commitments from US agencies and private investors is set to be announced on Wednesday for US. President Barack Obama's signature Africa energy initiative,...
The Office of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has noted the discussions on his Public Lecture on the theme – “The State of the Ghanaian Economy – a foundation of Concrete or Straw” – and continues to...
The President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa (PAC-DBIA) has issued its final recommendations to U. S.President Barack Obama before he leaves office in January 2017. The advisors...
