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  A few months ago, following broad consultation with the banking industry on proposals embodied in Bank of Ghana’s (BoG) Consultation Paper of Minimum Capital Requirements, the former top financial policeman, Governor Dr. Paul Acquah announced a move to raise the minimum capital required for obtaining a banking licence and operating in the country from [...]

Allow me to recap a 2011 event; I will assume we are all aware of the university students’ outrage regarding increasing fees which received extensive media coverage around July 2011. Secured within the borders of Ghana, one can be forgiven for their obliviousness in regards to a similar occurrence in the UK. What am I [...]

Africa as a continent is reportedly said to have at least 70% of its population as youth. South Africa is similar, is having majority of its citizens as youth. The youth is not involved much in matters of natural sciences, such as agriculture, forestry, water, biodiversity etc, and that on its own does not bode [...]

Climate change is one of the challenges facing human kind in recent times. The explanation given to the causes of climate change is that carbon dioxide or carbon emissions as by product of industries and fossil fuel utilization, that end up breaking the ozone layer, thus exposing the earth to ultra violet rays, hence likely [...]

I have been following one of my Feint and Margin colleagues S. Mahlaba’s enlightening article on agriculture, rural development and the challenges that must be overcome if agriculture is to help us solve the unemployment that South Africa is currently facing. I happened to read an interesting research on the future role of cities in [...]

Land reform is a political tool that seeks to challenge and counterbalance land ownership on the basis of colonialism and apartheid based on the presupposition that being white in complexion means having the privilege to own everything under the sun. Basically, the victims of colonialism and apartheid with regards to land dispossession of the past,almost [...]

It is quite interesting how often we hear the the political office-bearers speak of agriculture as one of the key sectors to absorb some of the huge numbers of unemployed people in the country. Are their utterances prompted by facts or just wishful thinking? Is our Agricultural sector, vibrant and sound enough to be a [...]

Markets need to be free. When the government interferes to dictate what market participants can or cannot do, resources cannot flow to their most efficient use. If people cannot do the things that they find most profitable, they lose the incentive to invest and innovate. Thus, if the government puts a cap on house rents, [...]

Day in, day out the media houses report all sorts of news, and disheartening of all news, is the crime in our beloved country of which in most cases is coupled with ruthlessness thereof. In the same context, it is to be questioned, why some people tend to resort to crime or thuggery as the way [...]

Coffee is one of the most consumed beverages around the world. It is one of the most traded agricultural produce or commodity in the world, second to the crude oil from mostly middle-east states .Originally, coffee is said to be from Ethiopia,and botanically is known as Coffea arabica. So the botanic or rather scientific name [...]