Africa’s current job market is not providing enough jobs, and the available jobs are not of sufficient quality for Africans to live a life of dignity, free of poverty.
As COVID-19 devastated lives and livelihoods around the world, policymakers needed timely and relevant evidence to inform decisions on how best to manage the...
Your urgent leadership towards a data-driven modern-day Marshall Plan for People and Planet
Policymakers, development partners, entrepreneurs, and ecosystem actors will discuss the key findings on innovation policy from the latest African Transformation Report: Integrating to Transform...
The digital revolution in Africa is not just about mobile phones and internet access. It can be an incredibly powerful tool to make African...
By Rob Floyd Africa’s digital infrastructure gap is worrying, and there are few good models around the world of well-integrated, multi-country approaches to reach...
By Rob Floyd In his recent book, Know the Beginning Well, K.Y. Amoako recounts the beginning of the Information, Communications and Technology (ICT) revolution...
By: Ann Cotton At the conclusion of the November 2020 meeting of the Transformation Leadership Panel (TLP), our chairperson, Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf noted,...
By George Boateng and Beatrice Oforiwaa Dankyi Today is the day that the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was due to come into...
By ARKEBE OQUBAY The response to Africa’s COVID-19 plight must be swift and at scale rather than too little, too late. In a world short...
By Yohannis Mulu Tessema and John Kojo Osei COVID-19, if not contained, can have long-lasting effects on all sectors of the African economy in...
“We went through, just in the last 20 years, this big debt forgiveness for a lot of African countries……now all of a sudden are...
With the global spread of the COVID-19, and gradual lock downs in cities and countries across Africa, I have new fears – that starvation...
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...
Reviewed by Arkebe Oqubay A trilogy on Asia’s transformation Deepak Nayyar — economist, thinker, leading scholar — has written yet another splendid book. Resurgent...
By Arkebe Oqubay Ethiopia’s remarkable record of economic growth and home-grown development path has inspired the whole continent of Africa. In reviewing the decade,...