Tag: Poverty

Estimates from the World Bank show that Ghana’s economy expanded by 4.1% in 2021, lower than the 4.4 percent forecast by the government of Ghana. Ghana’s GDP growth stood at ...

A recent research has found that the closed season introduced to protect the depletion of fish stocks in the waters of Ghana continue to harm only the Small-Scale Fishers, who ...

Africa’s newest gas producers are concerned that projects that utlilise fossil fuel resources to expand access to electricity are under threat as a result of the winding down of funds ...

Children’s right organization, ‘Save the Children’, has revealed that a woman from Afghanistan has been forced to sell one of her twins to enable her buy food for the remaining ...

The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has bemoaned the unbalanced nature of resource allocation in the country which does not create room for the economy to grow quickly to attain ...

Ghana has maintained its cocoa producer price, the price at which the country’s cocoa sector regulator buys cocoa from producers for the 2021/2022 cocoa crop season whereas its counterpart, Cote ...

Sub-Saharan Africa’s populous countries— Ethiopia, Nigeria and Cameroon also double as the largest recipients of healthcare donor funding in the region, Fitch Solutions indicates. These funds are mainly for basic ...

Despite holding huge potentials for businesses, awareness of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) among Ghanaian agribusiness firms is still very low. According to a recent Ghana Statistical Service ...

A new report has revealed that the incidence of food poverty of urban households remained high in August/September of 2020. Among a sample of urban households interviewed, the results indicate ...

The Executive Director of the National Population Council (NPC), Dr Leticia Appiah, has intimated that Ghana’s failure to aggressively tackle issues of teenage pregnancy is entrenching the poverty cycle in ...