The Resiliency in Northern Ghana (RING) project, a poverty reduction intervention designed to improve the nutrition and livelihood statuses of vulnerable households in the Northern Region has signed a sub-contracting with the University for Development Studies (UDS).
Developing countries face a series of tough challenges in 2015, including the looming prospect of higher borrowing costs as they adapt to a new era of low prices for oil and other key commodities, resulting in a fourth consecutive year of disappointing economic growth this year, says the World Bank Group’s latest Global Economic Prospects […]
The Africa Progress Panel welcomed the commitment made by the G7 to make deep cuts in emissions and to phase out of fossil fuels by the end of the century.
The Chair of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Strive Masiyiwa, announced today that Dr. Joachim von Braun, an economist and food policy expert known worldwide for his commitment to agriculture as a path out of poverty, has joined the organization’s board.
African governments, investors, and international financial institutions must significantly scale up investment in energy to unlock Africa’s potential as a global low-carbon superpower.
Ibis Tek Crowley Limited, a solid local partner of Crowley, an America shipping company that handles oil logistics is bent on changing the landscape of maritime services in Ghana.
Two of Africa’s most prominent foundations – the Nigeria-based Tony Elumelu Foundation and the Oppenheimer family’s Brenthurst Foundation of South Africa – launched an important new book titled “Africans Investing in Africa” on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum Africa meeting in Cape Town.
Ghana is facing considerable immediate challenges, including clearing of arrears, shrinking the wage bill, halting the monetisation of debt and a power crisis which crippled the country’s economy.
The EU Ambassador to Ghana, William Hanna has embarked on a three-day visit to North of Ghana to learn lessons from EU-funded projects in the Northern and Upper East regions of Ghana.
Participants at a day’s conference on corruption say Ghana has suffered drawbacks to its development over the last six decades, due to corruption, noting that it reduces the capacity of the state to deliver basic services for the citizens of the country.
