Business News of Wednesday, 4 February 2026Source: www.ghanaweb.comStakeholders within the migration industry have argued that migration can fuel development but only when governments move beyond rhetoric and create trust-based, structured investment systems that make remittances truly transformative. This was the central message emerging from the latest edition of "Ma Yen Nkasa – Let’s Talk", organised by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) Ghana Office, under the theme “Migration as Development Policy? “The money will be consumed but if it is structured into investment instruments, it can become transformational,” he noted. Owooson pointed to diaspora bonds as a widely used development financing tool in other countries, noting that Ghana has periodically issued similar instruments. Berding also questioned Ghana’s heavy focus on high-level diaspora summits, arguing that implementation has lagged behind dialogue.

Source: GhanaWeb February 04, 2026 17:05 UTC