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....

"Economic transformation requires financial resources—to pay for infrastructure, import machines and technology, to educate and train skilled workers….etc. How much resources and where would they come from?" ACET's chief economist, Dr. Yaw Ansu, recently posed the question and offered his thoughts and ideas. He was delivering the Keynote Address to the World Bank's Third Debt Management Facility Stakeholders' Forum, held in Accra. Dr. Ansu makes a lot of interesting points that you wil....

On 13th July, Dr. K.Y. Amoako, Founder and President of the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) opened the final of three regional workshops, organised and co-hosted by the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN), the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), and Agriculture for Impact (A4I) at Imperial College London. Please click here to read more

An ACET-GTA-CEPR Conference 19^th-20^th June 2012 La Palm Royal Beach Hotel, Accra, Ghana.   Global Trade Alert (GTA), the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the African Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET) will hold a two days conference on contemporary trade protectionism in Accra from 19^th-20^th June 2012.   The conference is designed to promote research on the effects on developing countries of contemporary protectionism, including the sorts of protection....