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As a third-world continent in a first-world universe, Africa has some serious catching up to do in order to be competitive economically as opposed to being the worlds largest charity case. Most African nations' governments are "democratic" yet leave little room in the economy for growth. As government has failed over and over again in attempting to juggle all the balls in society, small, private companies have stepped up to the plate. IMANI examines the role of these few-and-far-in-between private enterprises in the economy.

Africa's Private Sector

By:Franklin Cudjoe

Ghana's Vice-President, Alhaji Aliu Mahama's call on "the private sector in Africa to rise above the continents unsatisfactory conditions in infrastructure and economics and face the challenge of creating wealth"...

No-Till Agriculture

By:Franklin Cudjoe

The debate about how we best grow our food 'sustainability' has long divided commentators. Everyone has an opinion on the serious business of how to get food to...

Spacefon: Shrewd Business versus Ignorant Consumer

By:Franklin Cudjoe

There was no particular secret, as far as I knew, about where the finance for Sandcastle had come from, but it was up to Oliver Knowels to reveal it, not...

Time up for Com modification and Privatization of Urban Water Supply in Ghana

By:Franklin Cudjoe

There was harmonic convergence this week within my family when the 'left' and the 'right' positions on water privatization agreed that it was long overdue for water to be left for...

Why Ghana Remains Undeveloped

By:Franklin Cudjoe

I have really been living in interesting times in my country. From the official praise heaped on our poverty status, a respected member of Parliament saying that government should continue...

Land Guards were Politically Nurtured

By:Franklin Cudjoe

There are two important traditional maxims in Ghana well amplified by the predominant Akan ethnic group as "Tumi nyinaa ne asase" and " asase ye dur" which literally translates to...

Bottlenecks to Entrepreneurship

By:Franklin Cudjoe

I have work on several occasions with the in-coming Minister of Ghana's Finance and Economic Planning when he was Ghana's Minister of Education. I was representing an ...

 

Its Live Earth versus Africa

By: Kofi Bentil

IMANI Research Fellow Kofi Bentil notes in his article that "Few people in Africa got to see Al Gore and his troupe of rock-star ecologists strutting their stuff weeks ago, because most have neither television nor electricity. That's just as well because they would have been aghast at Live Earth's bizarre message..."

 

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