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New estimates from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) show a decline in global foreign direct investment (FDI). According to the UNCTAD’s Investment Trends Monitor, global FDI has dropped 41 per cent to $470 billion in the first half of 2018 from $794 billion at the same …

Mr Robert Akoto Amoafo, the Country Director of Amnesty International Ghana has disclosed that as at the end of 2017, there were about 160 prisoners on death row. He said they comprised 154 men and six women who remained locked up under death sentence at Nsawam prison complex. Mr Amoafo …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on today assured the United Kingdom that the on-going BREXIT negotiations would not affect trade and investment cooperation between Britain and Ghana. He therefore urged UK’s business community to leverage on the growing business-friendly climate in the country to invest in Ghana. “Even though we …

A German court has decided not to pursue a case against three former senior German football officials on tax evasion charges in connection with the 2006 World Cup. German prosecutors had charged former German Football Federation (DFB) presidents Wolfgang Niersbach and Theo Zwanziger, and former federation general secretary Horst R. …

Former President John Dramani Mahama, a Presidential aspirant in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) race has called for campaigns devoid of insults among colleague aspirants who are seeking to lead the party in the 2020 general elections. He acknowledged the competitive nature of the race and said “we are all …

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank Group, has committed $6.2 billion in long-term financing in private investment in sub-Saharan Africa in 2018 to help drive infrastructural development, job creation and growth in the region. This is the first time the region is receiving IFC’s largest investment in …

An employee of Cologne’s public transport company was handed a suspended sentence on Friday for his role in the collapse of Cologne’s historic archive building nearly a decade ago, in which two people were killed. Three members of a construction firm who were also charged with negligent homicide and hazardous …

Across Ghana, 76 percent of 15-year olds will survive until age 60 – this statistic is a proxy for the range of fatal and non-fatal health outcomes that a child born today would experience as an adult under current conditions, the World Bank has noted in a new Human Capital Index …

About 10 years ago, the world was hit with a financial crisis. The crisis started in the United States leading to loss of jobs and homes. This week, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that the world is at risk of yet another financial crisis. In the IMF’s October …

Ghana has outperformed the Great Britain, in areas such as Freedom  of religion, Equality of political power by gender and equality of political power by social  groups in the 2018 edition of the Social Progress Index. Each year, the Social Progress Imperative conducts a comprehensive review of all indicators included …