Editorials/Opinion

  Elections of one sort or another have taken place in all 48 sub-Saharan African countries in the past decade. On a continent that has also experienced some 83 successful coups in half a century, this is often cited as a mark of progress.…

As most commentators will be aware, after a disastrous 2008 for commodities, and even more so for many commodities stocks, prediction is a hazardous business. While many were only too well aware at the beginning of 2008 of the…

Removing user fees for primary health care changed health utilization behaviour but did not improve health outcomes among households with children under the age of five in Ghana, says a new study published in the open access journal PLoS…

Ghana can be quite an interesting country. It pioneered independence in 1958 then followed that closely with pioneering coups by overthrowing its independence leader Kwame Nkuruma and now to becoming the first country on the continent where…

It is rather standing economic logic on its head when the federal government claimed that it is not going to reduce petroleum prices despite the collapse of crude oil price vis-a-vis petroleum products because according to its argument,…

It is the season of selling and buying. With so many brand choices in the areas of toys, food, drinks, clothes, shoes, electricals and many more, it has long become the buyers’ market. Importers, manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors…

If you want a happy, worry-free Christmas then as well as the usual injunctions about not raking up past familial misdemeanours over Christmas dinner, you should probably also avoid looking at your pension fund statement. The average…

Ghanaians go to the polls Sunday December 28, 2008 to vote in a presidential run-off but many fear that the amount of cocaine trafficked through the country threatens to overshadow the result and the country’s democracy. Ghana is said to…

With every conviction, our respected Central Bank monetary policy egg-heads are hell-bent on adopting inflation targeting, a monetary mechanism that is applicable for nations with functioning or incipient productive base such as South…

When Ghana’s next President emerges whoever he is he will have earned the right to consider himself the representative of hope for the growth of genuine democracy throughout the West African sub-region. Apart from the circumspect and…