ISSER Director, Prof Peter Quartey spoke to the Business and Financial Times for an article on the impact of coronavirus on Ghana’s manufacturing sector.

In the article published on 28 September 2020, Prof Quartey said the manufacturing sector was not spared the ravages of the coronavirus; new data showed the sector has experienced its biggest contraction in more than six years.

On 8 August, Prof Peter Quartey (Director, ISSER) and Prof Robert Darko Osei (Associate Professor, ISSER) gave presentations at the Ghana Priorities Eminent Panel Conference in Accra.  The conference is part of the "Ghana Priorities" project, an initiative being spearheaded by the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), in collaboration with the Copenhagen Consensus Centre, an award-winning international think tank.

This Energy Safety Nets: Ghana Case Study investigates how the Government of Ghana supports access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for its citizens. As seen in other countries around the world, Ghana has implemented various interventions to increase access to electricity and clean cooking fuels. The overall aim of this case study is to identify the measures that have been put in place to enable poor and vulnerable Ghanaians to access and use modern energy services and to explore the reasons for successes or failures in their implementation.

The new corona virus (COVID-19) which scientists believe originated from the Hubei province in China has shaken the entire world and brought the global economy to its knees. It has claimed several lives and Ghana has not been spared though not on the scale recorded in USA, Italy, Spain, UK, South Africa etc. The threat of the virus has affected all three sectors of Ghana’s economy, namely, agriculture, industry and services. The hardest hit includes education, hotels and tourism, restaurants, import and export trade to mention but a few.

The Institute of Statistical, Social, and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana has launched the fourth edition of the Ghana Social Development Outlook (GSDO) on 1st of October, 2019 at the ISSER Conference Facility.

Prof. Peter Quartey, Director of ISSER, in his welcome address mentioned that the launch which was the fourth in the series of publications by the institute focused on the record of the state of social development in Ghana.

The Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research (ISSER) of the University of Ghana has donated books on various sectors of the economy to the Takoradi Technical University (TTU).

The books, according to the ISSER, were authored by the research fellows of the institute and would assist lecturers and students to make contributions to policy decisions on matters of varied context.

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