Financial rescue packages offered by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to countries facing economic meltdown, should place less emphasis on cutbacks in future in recognition that the Fund has “gone too far with austerity”, Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, told Daniel Johnson after presenting his report on the IMF — as well as the United States and Ghana — to the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

The world needs to focus on the “capabilities and abilities” of people with disabilities and “not just the disability.”

Transitioning from cash to digital payments could save Ghana’s government more than US$200 million over the next four years, a UN-backed study has found.