Today is a good day to celebrate the contributions of the women who have contributed  5  to the development of Ghana’s financial sector whether in the securities, banking, insurance, and pensions industry. The financial industry has a key role to play in helping to remove formal barriers to women’s socio-economic development, chief among which is access to finance.
It is possible to achieve this, but the path here is a narrow one and it is clouded in uncertainty. One important source of uncertainty is the global economy, where the outlook has deteriorated. The situation in Europe is very troubling, not least because of the extraordinary increases in energy prices.