President Obama has roll out phase two of his administration’s signature food security initiative, Feed the Future.

It is no doubt that food security deserves to be discussed as a priority at the G-8. One-quarter of the people in sub-Saharan Africa are undernourished and one-third of African…

By E.K.Bensah Jr

By Isaac Twumasi-Quantus in Accra.

Quiet recently I read a report about fostering industrial development in Africa in the new global environment delivered by Milasoa Chérel-Robson, Economic Affairs Officer at the (UNCTAD) where he noted that African economies must diversify and not become reliant on agriculture.

Reading through and again it was clear that Africa has enjoyed good levels of economic growth despite the global financial crisis and…

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) is luring investors to government paper with higher yields that will raise the opportunity cost of holding dollars and stabilise the exchange rate.

At its auction last Friday, for bills to be issued this week, the bank hiked interest rates on short-term bills and notes to levels not seen in two years. The yield on the 91-day bill rose to 15.4%, the highest since March 2010, while the 182-day bill returned 15.9% per annum.

The yields on the one-…

The Rural Enterprise Project (REP) aims at alleviating poverty, slowing rural-urban drift, contributing to the creation of sustainable jobs. The project also aims at addressing the low level of technology and productivity, low income and un-competitiveness in production, processing and distribution in agriculture. REP aims at addressing this deficiency through transfer of technology, thereby improving the low level of technology and productivity, as well as aiding in improving the low income…