Ghana’s National Payment Platform May Become A Colossal Waste of Resources
Monday, February 08, 2010
The tendency of governments to take on complex programs without sufficient risk analysis, and the bureaucratic unease of government-paid managers about dealing with the private sector, can prove, as e-zwich has shown, very costly for all of us by leading to the wanton dissipation of scarce resources.
A Personal Response to Zimbabwe Critics
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
It takes more than courage to pour one's heart out as our Regular columnist and associate, Rejoice Ngwenya has done below. Some of us can only feel the pain of freedom champions from afar. Please let us commisserate with Rejoice. Please feel free o use the attached image for this and subsequent articles from Rejoice.
IMANI Alert: How Affordable is the STX-Ghana Affordable Housing Project?
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Our praise for the deal is of course limited to the extent that there are significant questions still remaining to be answered. There appears to have developed a spontaneous conspiracy of some sort between the media, Parliament of Ghana, and GoG to keep the details of this massive undertaking outside public debate. This is a very worrying situation.
A tip for Pravin: South Africa should adopt a flat tax
Saturday, January 30, 2010
by Jasson Urbach
The flat tax allows governments to gather maximum tax revenue at rates that provide taxpayers with what they judge to be an acceptable reward for their effort and risk-taking. Higher tax rates reduce the incentives for entrepreneurs to risk their capital and sacrifice their time and energy to earn higher incomes.
IMANI Center for Policy & Education is 5th most influential think tank in Africa
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
The Global think tank programme in association with Pennsylvania University and the Foreign Policy Magazine ranked IMANI, the 5th most influential think tank in Africa for 2010. We were ranked 6th last year. See last year’s ranking at http://imanighana.org/?q=node/50
A Plea for Mr Robert Mugabe to retire.
Monday, January 25, 2010
By Rejoice Ngwenya
Why would a citizen vehemently request his Octogenarian President to retire if he has not had enough of “land expropriation, three million Zimbabweans in exile, one billion percent inflation, collapse in education, health, road and electricity infrastructure, extensive poverty, election violence and death, biased judiciary, media paranoia”? Our regular columnist, Rejoice Ngwenya believes Mugabe has outlived his usefulness or rather uselessness as a President. And he reminds Mugabe that his retrogressive sense of judgement is as a result of natural progression in age.
A Green World Order
Friday, January 22, 2010
By Caroline Boin
Copenhagen failed because one size does not fit all - so the solution promoted by the UK and France and favoured by many EU countries is to create a new one-size-fits-all global authority.
