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Ghana may struggle to raise the full $5bn it wants to borrow from international markets this year given the scale of its debts, analysts say.

Accra, Ghana//-Minority in Parliament has cast doubts in the President’s commitment to build 88 district and 7 regional hospitals by the end of his second term in office.

Abidjan, Ivory Coast//-The African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) has launched a project to support development of domestic debt markets and financial systems in four West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ) countries: the Gambia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.

We enter 2021, hoping to put the COVID-19 pandemic behind us. While each society has dealt with it uniquely, global diplomacy will nevertheless focus on common concerns and shared lessons. Much of that revolves around the nature of globalization.

Geneva, Switzerland//-The global economy is expected to grow by 4.7% this year, faster than predicted in September (4.3%), thanks, in part, to a stronger recovery in the United States, where progress in distributing vaccines and a fresh fiscal stimulus of $1.9 trillion are expected to boost consumer spending, says a new UNCTAD analysis.

Bank buildings rise above the business district of Lagos. Banks must effectively communicate the impact of their engagement with women. Tim Graham/Getty Images Emmanuel Mogaji, University of Greenwich Businesses are part of societies and successful businesses can create an environment that benefits their customers, employees, communities and shareholders. They do this through various forms of […]

Accra, Ghana//-A report released by World Bank put forward six strategic measures that could transform Ghana’s economy within the short, medium and long terms.

Accra, Ghana//-A study released by World Bank today warned that Ghana can only return to its agenda of growth-enhancing structural transformation if its main external markets are able to halt the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in the country.

Kenya and Tanzania are among the world’s 70 countries notorious in helping multinational corporations to underpay corporate income tax, leading to lower revenue collections and persistent budget deficit, according to the latest Corporate Tax Haven Index (CTHI 2021) by Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA), a Pan-African research and advocacy organisation.

Abidjan, Ivory Coast// – Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz has called for a comprehensive global plan to help countries cope with mounting debt that has been compounded by the Covid-19 pandemic.