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The trend towards knowledge- and service-based economies is increasingly widespread among emerging and frontier markets, whether they are resource-rich or resource-poor. The benefits of driving growth in the tertiary sector are well known, but the recipes for success are not. However, Ghana’s economic and political stability, combined with its...

Now entering its 20th year, the Ghanaian mobile market has evolved into one of the most developed in sub-Saharan Africa. The country has six telecoms operators all vying for the custom of the country’s 24.9m inhabitants. Falling tariffs, improved coverage and the consistently timed roll-out of new products have resulted from the increased...

The house is a nondescript property surrounded by a tall cement wall. But everybody in this residential neighbourhood in Achimota knows where the Professor lives. The courtyard is quiet save for a siren that rings regularly, marking the beginning and end of three-minute periods. Training rhythm determined by sound, a handful of teenagers swiftly...

The trend towards knowledge- and service-based economies is increasingly widespread among emerging and frontier markets, whether they are resource-rich or resource-poor. The benefits of driving growth in the tertiary sector are well known, but the recipes for success are not. However, Ghana’s economic and political stability, combined with its...

Although the country may not succeed in reaching its fifth Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of reducing its maternal mortality ratio (MMR) to 185 per 100,000 live births, Ghana has nonetheless made noteworthy strides in improving maternal health over the last 15 years. Indeed, between 1990 and 2007, the MMR has fallen from 740 per 100,000 live...

Few buildings are more representative of the continent’s tumultuous history than the series of stone-built fortresses that dot several of Ghana’s coastal towns. Of these fortresses, some lie forgotten and broken down, hardly visited, while others have attracted travellers from the other side of the Atlantic, keen to learn about their ancestry and...

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