Financial WELLNESS with Richmond Kwame Frimpong Preamble An Initial Public Offering is the first sale of stock by a private company to the public. Put differently, if a company issues shares to the public for the first time, it is called an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Another way to describe an IPO is “Going Public”. […] The post Understanding Initial
World Water Day, 22 March 2021, is about what water means to people, its true value and how we can better protect this vital resource. The World Water Day celebrates water and raises awareness of the global water crisis, and a core focus of this observance is to support the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal […] The post Editorial:
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Ghana, through its Programme Migration & Diaspora, has held a week’s multi-stakeholders dialogue workshop to validate the action plans of its partners on the implementation of the National Labour Migration Policy. The workshop was also used to validate a joint Ministry of the Interior – International Organisation […] The post GIZ
Want to achieve quick time-to-value on your digital transformation efforts while still building toward greater future capabilities? This is what you need to know. Organisations have experienced immense disruption over the past year. Many have had to reinvent their operating models, their product or service offerings and, in some cases, even their entire […] The post How
Women have been urged to gear up with the right capabilities, attitude and skills in order to be able to take on the challenges that equal opportunities at the workplace would present so as to ensure that they achieve their full potential. To commemorate International Women Day 2021 (IWD 2021), FBNBank, through its FBNBank Women […] The post Women must choose
World ORT and Coconut Grove Beach Resort, Ghana, are launching the training of women STEM instructors in Elmina to provide young girls and women with the skills and knowledge necessary to cope with the complexities and uncertainties of their environments, and foster economic self-sufficiency, mobility, and a sense of identity. Course instructors will be female […] The post STEM
Book review Book Title: Atakora &Attakora on Sale of Goods Author: Jude Atakora Tufuor & Kweku Attakora Dwomoh Atakora and Attakora is a book carefully authored to meet the academic and business demands of the lack of an existence of any book on the sale of goods in Ghana and it’s Anglophone neighbouring countries within […] The post Book review: Atakora &Attakora
Implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCTA) is likely to enslave Africans to the rest of the world if the challenges associated with the program are not fixed, the think-tank group Citizen Watch has revealed. Currently, it is estimated that Ghana needs about US$5billion annually for the next 10 years to support the […] The post AfCTA programme to enslave Africans
Kasapreko Company Limited has marked this year’s World Water Day with Awake Purified Drinking Water in Accra and Gupkegu-Tua, near Tamale. The theme for this year’s celebration is “Valueing Water”. Kasapreko Company Limited made donations to Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Cardiothoracic Centre and Gupkegu-Tua community near Tamale to celebrate the day. The United Nations has set […] The post Awake
Historically, demographics has been a slow-moving variable. But the East Asian economies – especially China, Japan, and South Korea – have flipped so fast from rapid population growth to decline that they practically have whiplash. As a planned economy, China was once obsessed with expanding its population. But, in 1957, the economist Ma Yinchu published […] The post China’s accelerating
The 2021 International Women’s Day Theme is ‘Women in Leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 World’. And the narrative goes like this: ‘A challenged world is an alert world. Individually, we’re all responsible for our own thoughts and actions – all day, every day. We can all choose to challenge and call out […] The post Choosing to challenge the status
MTN’s US$25 million donation to support the African Union’s (AU’s) COVID-19 vaccination programme is on track to administer 165,000 AstraZeneca doses to health workers. The vaccines arrived in the country two days ago and were received at the Kotoka International Airport by Dr. Mathew Kyeremeh, Chairman of the Health Commodities Group for COVID-19 of the […] The post First
INTRODUCTION The Research Consultancy Centre (RCC) of UPSA instituted the UPSA ECONOMIC DIALOGUE SERIES, a platform to contribute meaningfully to Ghana’s economic policy and discourse. Therefore, UPSA’s analysis of the 2021 budget statement presented to the Parliament of Ghana themed Economic Revitalisation through Completion, Consolidation and Continuity by Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, the Majority Leader, Minister […] The post UPSA’S
Nuanced Life, Nuanced National Issues You know what, if not for the fact that I intend to set up a fake church should the unfortunate event happen that I become bankrupt, I would have named this column ‘The Nuances of Life’ or something to that effect, instead of ‘Attempted Prophecies’. Because what this column tries […] The post Attempted prophecies: Hair v. Motown appeared
Parliament and judiciary increases by only 48.71% and 18.49% respectively A case of betrayal and lack of commitment to effective separation of powers and good governance principles Critical analysis of the 2021 budgetary allocations as against previous provisions reveal that, over the last five years, allocations to the office of government machinery have increased by […] The post Allocation
Professor Douglas Boateng column Board of directors as rightly pointed out by Charan R. Holcomb J.M. Useem M. are supposed to monitor and not manage. The role can be rewarding, challenging and also risky. Today, the relationship between board level risks and rewards especially in publicly quoted companies and state owned entities are ever-changing and […] The post Directorships:
Managing Director of the Agricultural Development Bank, Dr. John Kofi Mensah, has said that reforms introduced by the regulator in the past few years have strengthened the banking sector; hence, the industry can absorb the 5 percent levy recently introduced by government. Government has said it spent some GH¢21billion on the financial sector clean-up exercise, […] The post Banks
describes new taxes in 2021 budget as regressive Despite government’s assertion that it has achieved adequate food supply through its flagship programme ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’ (PFJ), the Director of Research at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – Dr. John Kwakye – has stated that cost of food is still on the high […] The post Food prices too high despite
Government is fully committed to ensuring that the disaster of June 3, 2015 does not repeat itself, the Minister of Works and Housing, Francis Asenso-Boakye, has assured. According to him, this is the reason the Akufo-Addo administration has since of that national disaster been frequently dredging and desilting drains in especially flood-prone areas of Accra. […] The post Gov’t
… anti-tobacco advocates push for higher rates to discourage child use Research conducted by the Vision for Alternative Development (VALD) has revealed that despite the many efforts geared at discouraging tobacco use, especially among children through high tax rates, the commodity is very cheap on the market as the price for a stick of […] The post A stick
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