Periklis Saragiotis of the World Bank says Ghana must look more seriously into shipment processes and procedures at the Tema Port if it is to become a hub for the West African sub-region. He said the...
I do have a question for you. Is the use of Mobile Phone Banking making significant efforts in bridging the gap to universal financial inclusion? Come to think of it! Mobile banking is simply the act...
A new World Bank study on poverty and shared prosperity says that extreme poverty worldwide continues to fall despite the lethargic state of the global economy. But it warns that given projected...
World Bank, others to release $1.3bn for Nigeria’s development bank In line with its determination to revive the Nigerian economy, the federal government yesterday revealed that the Development...
A new World Bank study on "Poverty and Shared Prosperity" indicates that extreme poverty worldwide continues to fall despite the lethargic state of the global economy. But it warned that given...
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...
The Global Lead for Credit Infrastructure at the World Bank, Mahesh Uttamchandani has described as acceptable, government’s intervention in the DKM microfinance scam to help customers get back...
Finance Minister Seth Terpker is leading government’s delegation to the International Monetary Fund (IMF)/World Bank meetings which open in Washington DC from October 4 to 14. He is joined by the...
Ghana has received approval for $24 million for the first-of-a-kind Private-Public Partnership project to restore degraded forest reserves and double a sustainable forest plantation. This project is...
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,...
So I’ve been away for the past few days contributing my quota as an engineer to Ghana’s Oil & Gas sector. My little escapade took me hundreds of feet into the sky to the destination I was headed...
Gold was discovered, (circa) ca. BC/BCE 6,000 in Egypt (Cramb, Alan W, A Short History of Metals, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University). It was the first and by...
There is no doubt that changes in the earth's climate always occurs, however as a result of human induced activities over the years, the change is happening at a fast pace. This change is at the...
Construction works on the $1.5billion Tema Port expansion project is expected to commence on the 1st October 2016. The project, which is the biggest investment of the almost 70yrs history of the...
Uganda was once named “the pearl of Africa” by Sir Winston Churchill. She was endowed with beautiful environment comprised of rainforests, woodlands and various species of fauna and flora that...
President Uhuru Kenyatta has nominated and endorsed Jim Yong Kim to serve a second term as President of the World Bank Group. Uhuru's action was in response to an announcement from the World Bank...
There could be more than 100 million additional people living in extreme poverty by 2030 if the international community does not undertake rapid, inclusive and climate-smart development, a World Bank...
Prof. Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang, the current Minister of Education has stated that Ghana would very soon stop using English as a medium of instruction in schools. She attributed the failure of the...
