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Countries have taken prompt containment measures, with the strictest enforced in the Northern Triangle of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, amid inadequate testing and tracing...

The financial industry is undergoing rapid technological change. Traditional banks face competition from online start-ups with no physical branches. Social media and other digital platforms...

Dynamism in technological trends will unravel limitless opportunities within the digital economy to benefit youth and women within the small-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) sector. To...

The currencies that are being held by central banks as foreign exchange reserves have remained largely steady over decades. Changes in the composition of these...

Having been declared victorious in the December 7 presidential elections by Chairperson of Ghana’s Electoral Commission, Mrs Jean Mensa, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, working...

The Chief Executive Officer (C.E.O.) of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA), Adjenim Boateng Adjei, was on October 30, 2020 sacked by the president as recommended...

The paradox of democracy is that while investing in African dictatorships brings reputational risks for Western financial institutions, competitive democracy comes at a high cost....

Come Jan. 1, Africa will be home to the largest free trade area in the world. Although the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), doesn’t go...

Central banks have played a pivotal role in easing financial conditions in response to the COVID-19 shock, and helped avert a catastrophic downturn. However, their...

Last March, when COVID-19 infected the world economy, many observers feared that emerging markets and developing countries would suffer the most, financially and otherwise. Economically,...