Confronting low domestic savings in Africa
The topic of savings is an important issue in economics research and has been since the beginning of the discipline. In SSA, the ability of countries to finance their developmental needs is critical. The greater the domestic savings, the greater is the much-needed flexibility to formulate and implement ‘homegrown’ policies to confront growth and development challenges.
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ISSER Short Courses 2022 opens with participants from Ghana and Sierra Leone
The 2022 edition of the ISSER Short Courses Programme opened on May 30 with the Executive Leadership Programme in Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) for Public and Private Sectors, the first of four short courses being organised this year by the Institute.
ISSER to launch new multi-million-dollar research initiative on digital finance
ISSER will on Tuesday, June 7, 2022 launch the Retail Financial Distribution Research (ReFinD) research initiative, a new multi-million dollar project focused on deepening digital financial inclusion and improving women’s access to financial services in low and middle-income countries.
The event will be held at the ISSER Conference Facility and feature the Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr Ernest Kwamina Addison as guest of honour, and stakeholders from the digital finance sector.
New project to co-create solutions for improving play-based early learning in Ghana and Sierra Leone launched
ISSER has hosted an inception workshop featuring early childhood education stakeholders in Ghana and Sierra Leone to launch the “Teacher Capacity Building for Play-based Early Learning in Ghana and Sierra Leone” project – a collaborative study aimed at enhancing the capacity of teachers to implement innovations in play-based learning at early childhood levels of education.