Tag: Poverty

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 ...

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has warned that a total of 514 million people in Africa are at risk of falling into extreme poverty if the impact of the ...

China’s President, Xi Jinping has declared “complete victory” in his government’s effort to eradicate rural poverty, lifting the income of nearly 100 million people over the past eight years. The ...

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus has had severe strains on the global economy which is now projected to contract by 4.4% this year. Whist the virus has claimed several ...

Out of 189 countries globally and 46 sub-Saharan Countries, Ghana places 138th and 13th respectively in the new human development Index for 2020. This new HDI score of 0.611 is ...