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The Evolution of Mobile Phone Banking Services

I do have a question for you. Is the use of Mobile Phone Banking making significant efforts in bridging the gap to...

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Tackling Inequality Vital To Ending Extreme Poverty By 2030

A new World Bank study on poverty and shared prosperity says that extreme poverty worldwide continues to fall despite...

International

World Bank, Others To Release $1.3bn For Nigeria’s Development Bank

World Bank, others to release $1.3bn for Nigeria’s development bank In line with its determination to revive the...

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Tackling Inequality Vital To Ending Extreme Poverty By 2030 – World Bank

A new World Bank study on "Poverty and Shared Prosperity" indicates that extreme poverty worldwide continues to fall...

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Nearly 385 Million Children Live In Extreme Poverty – UNICEF

Children are more than twice as likely as adults to live in extreme poverty, according to a new analysis from the World...

Business

Government’s Interference In DKM Scam Acceptable – World Bank Executive

The Global Lead for Credit Infrastructure at the World Bank, Mahesh Uttamchandani has described as acceptable,...

Business

Seth Terkper Leads Gov’t Delegation To Annual IMF/World Bank Meetings

Finance Minister Seth Terpker is leading government’s delegation to the International Monetary Fund (IMF)/World Bank...

Business

Ghana Gets $24m To Restore Degraded Forests

Ghana has received approval for $24 million for the first-of-a-kind Private-Public Partnership project to restore...

Business

Sankofa Gas Project Receives US$700m World Bank Guarantee

Ghana has received a US$700-million guarantee from the World Bank for its Offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP)- Sankofa...

Opinion

A Curse In A Mess?

So I’ve been away for the past few days contributing my quota as an engineer to Ghana’s Oil & Gas sector. My little...

Opinion

An Important Announcement On Ghanas Gold Industry

Gold was discovered, (circa) ca. BC/BCE 6,000 in Egypt (Cramb, Alan W, A Short History of Metals, Department of...

Opinion

Application Of Science And Technology To Combat Climate Change In Africa

There is no doubt that changes in the earth's climate always occurs, however as a result of human induced activities...

Business

Tema Port Expansion Project To Commence 1st October

Construction works on the $1.5billion Tema Port expansion project is expected to commence on the 1st October 2016. The...

Opinion

The Pearl of Africa Appalling

Uganda was once named “the pearl of Africa” by Sir Winston Churchill. She was endowed with beautiful environment...

International

Uhuru Endorses World Bank President Jim Yong Kim For Second Term

President Uhuru Kenyatta has nominated and endorsed Jim Yong Kim to serve a second term as President of the World Bank...

Africa & World

Climate Change Could Force 100M into Poverty by 2030, World Bank Group Report Says

There could be more than 100 million additional people living in extreme poverty by 2030 if the international community...

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Ghana to Stop Using English as the Medium of Instruction in Schools

Prof. Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang, the current Minister of Education has stated that Ghana would very soon stop using...