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ACET president, K.Y. Amoako, along with co-authors Daniel Hamilton and Eveline Herfkens acknowledge that the proposed Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the United States and the European Union promises to boost North Atlantic economies. However, the parties will have to make adjustments to fit 21st century realities. The agreement must update old US and EU trade preference schemes for Sub-Saharan Africa by providing equal opportunity for all SSA countries, and accepting....

As part of its centennial anniversary celebrations, the Rockefeller Foundation in collaboration with the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) held the final Future Scenario Workshop of the Informal City Dialogue (ICD), on Wednesday April 24, and Thursday April 25, 2013 at the Afia Beach Resort in Accra, Ghana. At this workshop, participants were allowed to immerse themselves in an exploration of urban life 27 years from today. Participants were also encouraged to use their im....

True or False? Only one fifth of the population of Sub Saharan Africa has access to electricity compared with one half in South Asia and four fifths in Latin America.
True. It gets worse - Africa’s power costs around US$0.18 per kilowatt-hour on average to produce (about twice as expensive as elsewhere). The World Bank cites that African countries will fail to reach universal access to electricity by 2050. With such dire facts, is there any hope? The Addax Bioenergy project....

ACET convenes African Ministers for Mining to share how natural resources can be used for economic transformation On the occasion of the 2013 Africa Mining Indaba in Cape Town, South Africa, ACET brought together four officials whose work significantly affects the contribution of mining to Africa’s economic transformation. With more than 7,000 in attendance, the 19^th Indaba, which ran from February 3 to 7, 2013, was a who-is-who affair for African mining. Titled “Harnessing natural re....

ACET is collaborating with The Rockefeller Foundation's Informal City Dialogues, which will explore the role of informal cities in several capitals around the world, including Accra, Ghana.

 For more information, see: ICD Project Brief & ICD Accra Project Brief