By John Asafu-Adjaye Many people will agree with the proposition that prosperity is much more than material wealth. Prosperity also encompasses safety and security, wellbeing, freedom of association and movement, and opportunity. The concept of Economic Openness, broadly defined as an open and competitive economy, is…
By George Boateng Agriculture remains the backbone of most African economies, contributing 24 percent of gross domestic product in Tanzania, and about 30 percent in Burkina Faso. It also...
An extract from 2017 African Transformation Report Climate change will bring opportunities and challenges to African agriculture through its effects on precipitation and average...
This article was first published in March 2019 By Chris Gordon A long-standing mystery of modern times is why the great Mayan cities in...
This article was first published in May 2019 Africa, in particular, sub-Saharan Africa, is considered to be the area most vulnerable to climate change...
By John Asafu-Adjaye African economies have grown rapidly over the past two decades. Growth between 2009 and 2017 averaged 3.8 percent per year, compared to...
By Arkebe Oqubay I was recently in Anantarivo, Madagascar for the 11th Private Sector Forum organised by the African Union Commission and its partners,...
By Dave Sessions It can be expensive to be poor and excluded from access to financial services. A recent global study by the Asian...
By Rob Floyd On September 12 in Abidjan, ACET convened African governments, international organizations, the private sector and development finance institutions (DFIs) to discuss...
Peter da Costa’s life was filled with joy and family, intellectual accomplishment, and immeasurable devotion to Africa. It was through this devotion that he...
By George Boateng Kofi Oteng Kufuor has written a clear, factual piece set out in history, religion and political jurisprudence on the challenges, prospects...
By Elijah Kimani The dilemma over Africa’s looming Chinese debt problem should be informed by Europe’s history of freeing up resources following WW1 and...
BY PETER FABRICIUS Africa’s ‘development partners’ still struggle to define and manage their relationship with the continent. This was apparent at the G20 summit in...
The President of the Republic of Niger and head of state, Issoufou Mahamadou, met the senior director of research and policy engagement of the...
Le Président de la République, Chef de l’Etat, SEM Issoufou Mahamadou, a reçu lundi matin, 1er juillet 2019, le Directeur des Opérations du Centre...
The founder of Perez Chapel International, Bishop Charles Agyinasare, has blamed the collapse of Ghanaian businesses on the immediate tax imposed on them by...