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Digital for Development (D4D) or Innovation for Transformation (I4T)?

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 in Africa. As Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for…

Blogs 14 Jan 21 144
Blogs, TLP 4 Jan 21 152
Building stronger institutions in Africa starts at the local level
By: Ann Cotton At the conclusion of the November 2020 meeting of the Transformation Leadership Panel (TLP), our chairperson, Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf noted,...
Blogs 1 Jul 20 7
How Africa’s Free Trade Agreement Would Reduce COVID-19’s Impact
By George Boateng and Beatrice Oforiwaa Dankyi Today is the day that the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was due to come into...
Blogs 23 Apr 20 0
How Africa Can Fight the Pandemic
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...
Blogs 22 Apr 20 2
How Badly Will the Coronavirus Impact Africa’s Economies?
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...
Blogs 7 Apr 20 4
Fiscal Social Contracts and Domestic Resource Mobilization in Sub-Saharan Africa
“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...
Blogs 31 Mar 20 3
Ensuring that Hunger does not kill more people than COVID-19 in Africa – Ndidi Nwuneli
With the global spread of the COVID-19, and gradual lock downs in cities and countries across Africa, I have new fears – that starvation...
Blogs 15 Jan 20 7
Has Prosperity in Ghana Improved?
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...
Blogs 14 Jan 20 0
Book Review: Resurgent Asia and Lessons for Africa
Reviewed by Arkebe Oqubay A trilogy on Asia’s transformation Deepak Nayyar — economist, thinker, leading scholar — has written yet another splendid book. Resurgent...
Blogs 14 Jan 20 1
Will the 2020s be the decade of Africa’s economic transformation?
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,...
Blogs 18 Dec 19 1
COP25 Stalled – Africa Cannot Afford To Fail
By Rob Floyd All eyes were on Madrid for COP25, but the global community was largely dysfunctional, divided and distracted.  Big polluters spent more...
Blogs 17 Dec 19 0
Farmers’ voices: the missing link in the quest for agricultural transformation?
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...
Blogs 10 Dec 19 0
The African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement and Xenophobia: Is Africa at a Crossroads?
By George Boateng & Beatrice Oforiwaa Dankyi The operational phase of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement was launched in July 2019 amidst excitement...
Blogs 21 Nov 19 0
Why industrialisation is vital for the African Continental Free Trade Agreement to succeed
By Arkebe Oqubay I was recently in Anantarivo, Madagascar for the 11th Private Sector Forum organised by the African Union Commission and its partners,...
Blogs 5 Nov 19 0
The imperative of economic transformation
By Rob Floyd A number of recent events and reports paint a troubling picture for the World’s developing countries.  In many cases there is...
Blogs 30 Oct 19 0
Smallholder Farmer Voices – Challenges and Opportunities
By Adiel N. Mbabu The story of smallholder farmers in Africa, as in other developing countries in the last century, has been that of...
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