The World Bank has released Zoomlion Ltd from its blacklist of companies found guilty of corrupt practices while executing projects funded by the Bank, and the company can now bid for contracts from the institution and its affiliates. “Zoomlion has been released as of September 23, 2015.” The Bank confirmed to ghanabusinessnews.com in an email […]
President John Dramani Mahama has urged ECOWAS member states to adopt elements of good governance in leveraging their mineral and petroleum potential, to maximise their contribution to sustainable development. He said because ECOWAS countries depend on minerals and hydrocarbons for their development, countries should consider such key elements as transparency, stakeholder involvement and accountability, among […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has downgraded its global economic growth forecast to 3.1 per cent and warned of rising debt levels in emerging economies, in a new report. Down from the global real GDP growth of 3.4 per cent last year, IMF forecasts 3.1 per cent growth in 2015 and an improvement to 3.6 […]
A research by the United Nations Children’s Fund has shown that children in Ghana experience the seventh highest rate of “violent discipline” in the world. To this end, as the World commemorates the International Day for Non-Violence, Challenging Heights, a Non-governmental Organization (NGO) that envisions a world where the rights of every child to education and a family life are […]
Following the overwhelming success of the South Africa: Gas Options(SA:GO) meeting in Cape Town last week – which welcomed over 300 investors to learn about South Africa’s Gas IPP programme Karén Breytenbach and the IPP Office team will attend Powering Africa: Finance Options meeting (PA:FO) in Cape Town from 5-6th November to explore some of […]
French President Francois Hollande on Monday commended President John Mahama for helping to bring stability to the West African sub-region during his tenure as Chair of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). In a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, President Hollande made reference to the developments in Burkina Faso last year […]
President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday appealed to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to develop a blueprint for the development of lower middle income countries and other developing countries. This, he said, would give them the leverage to generate funding and other resources to develop their economies and others in the sub […]
The overall governance performance of 21 African countries have plummeted since 2011, with only six registering an improvement in all four categories of the Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG), which was launched today. The six are Cote d’Ivoire, Morocco, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia and Zimbabwe. In the case of conflict-ravaged Somalia, coming from a very […]
The Department for International Development (DFID) through the Enhancing Growth in New Enterprises (ENGINE) is providing platforms for businesses in the Northern, Upper East, Upper West and parts of Brong Ahafo regions to share knowledge and ideas to improve their businesses. Mr Francis Opoku-Mensah, Enterprise Finance Manager for ENGINE Investors and Financing Dialogue, addressing the […]
The British High Commissioner has criticised some Ghanaian journalists for exhibiting traits of unprofessionalism and unethical behaviour by splashing pictures of dead bodies on screens and in the newspapers and taking money for covering events. Mr Jon Benjamin also slammed media houses, which he said, were providing their platforms to few self-aggrandised religious personalities to […]
