In this Q&A originally published in the French magazine Emerging Nations, Prof. John Asafu-Adjaye, Senior Fellow at the Economic Management and Governance Program and Charles Odoom, Head of Private Sector Development discuss the current and…
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, few response measures have been gender-sensitive, and most recovery projects have failed to employ gender-specific indicators. Economic support programs have...
By Rob Floyd ACET, working with partner Omdena and nearly 40 data scientists and machine learning experts from around the globe, recently completed the...
Feb. 5, 2021 – African leaders need a “bold vision” for their countries, but they need more than that to make real progress, according...
Introduction: The African Center for Economic Transformation has had quite an eventful year, although not as anticipated. While some of our most important products and activities had to be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic— including the latest edition...
By: K.Y. Amoako As Africa entered a new decade, there was sustained, if not vibrant, optimism for the future. Many of the continent’s economies...
By K.Y. Amoako In the coming weeks, the World Trade Organization faces an historic choice. For the first time in its 25-year history, a...
African policymakers face a daunting challenge in designing skills strategies that support transformation goals while also producing a resilient, adaptable workforce for the future....
Economic transformation depends on a workforce equipped with the right knowledge and skills to meet current—and future—labor market demands. How can African countries get...
Creating decent jobs in line with future expectations requires policies and strategies that enable workers to move from traditional to modern jobs and sectors....
Accra, Sept. 2, 2020 – The African Center For Economic Transformation (ACET) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association...
Accra, Sept. 1, 2020 – Mavis Owusu-Gyamfi, ACET’s Executive Vice President, was a guest recently on CNBC-Africa’s ‘Power Lunch East Africa’ hosted by Fiona...
A large and growing youth workforce holds enormous potential for Africa, but only if the continent’s chronic unemployment—and-under employment—issues are addressed. The solution starts...
The future of global labor will be increasingly African. One-fifth of the world’s population under the age of 25 now resides in Sub-Saharan Africa,...