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 also good news, but there are increasing risks, and without urgent…
By Adiel N. Mbabu The story of smallholder farmers in Africa, as in other developing countries in the last century, has been that of...
By Rob Floyd Often policymakers are torn between taking bold decisions that can lead to transformative change or taking less risky ones that may...
By Rob Floyd On September 12 in Abidjan, ACET convened African governments, international organizations, the private sector and development finance institutions (DFIs) to discuss...
By Phoebe Bardsley Ghana’s Agbogbloshie is famous again, but this time for the right reasons. Located in Ghana’s capital, Agbogbloshie has been coined the...
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 Sanjeev Gupta and Mark Plant At the Center for Global Development, we recently initiated a project to develop more effective and equitable strategies...
By Rob Floyd A year ago, I wrote about the Argentine Presidency of the G20. At that time, I indicated that little had been...
By George Boateng Cooperation among countries can be an effective tool to strengthen, share and accelerate development within countries and across regions. It involves...
By Dede Amanor-Wilks German investors interested in exploring opportunities in Ghana will be able to put questions to Ghanaian policy makers at the Germany...
By K.Y. Amoako Tributes to Kofi Annan on his extraordinary accomplishments as UN Secretary-General from 1997 to 2006 have poured in since he passed...
By Rob Floyd and Rick Gilmore At the recent African Transformation Forum (ATF2018) in Accra, the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) highlighted four...
By Sanjeev Gupta In development circles these days, there is considerable emphasis on developing countries collecting more taxes domestically to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals...
By George Boateng Jobless growth for a booming youth population, graduate unemployment and the skills challenge of the 4IR were questions with which participants...
By Buddy Buruku A regional value chain approach, one stop border posts and harmonized trade guidelines were export policies key to spurring industrialisation, participants...