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Oil Revenues Commission; How Ghana Can Avoid the Resource Curse
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 By Kofi Bentil
IMANI Director Speaks to TV Africa on the Mo Ibrahim Prize
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Mpedigree.NET in the Economist!
Monday, September 28, 2009
Please read the story here.
IMANI ALERT: Beware NHIS Reforms!
Thursday, September 24, 2009 By Kofi Bentil, Bright B. Simons & Franklin Cudjoe
Private Pathways are Best for Public Health Care Delivery
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 By Temba A. Nolutshungu
Ghana Central Bank Urged to Avoid Rate Hike, Boost Growth
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 "Inflation should not be the only indicator for running an economy," said Franklin Cudjoe, director of the Accra-based Imani Ghana think-tank. ... G20: Bonus for the Poor?
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 By the Trade Out of Poverty founders
IMANI, Ghana's President, and President's Spokesperson on AIR!
Tuesday, September 16, 2009
Respect for Property Rights Enhances Freedom
Wednesday, September 10, 2009
mPedigree.net Makes Ghana Proud Global Leader in ICT for Health
(SAN JOSE, Calif. and Accra, Ghana) Sept. 5, 2009
mPedigree Network which works with IMANI, was today named to The Tech Awards Laureates 2009, as one of 15 global innovators recognized each year for applying technology to benefit humanity and spark global change. The Tech Awards, a signature program of The Tech Museum, and presented by Applied Materials, Inc., selected mPedigree Network (www.mPedigree.Net) from among hundreds of nominations representing 66 countries. Read more here. US$ 100,000 for Applicants to Enterprise Based Solutions to Poverty Competition
Monday, September 07, 2009
Ghana Leads the World in ICT for Health
(SAN JOSE, Calif. and Accra, Ghana) Sept. 2, 2009
IMANI's Analyst Reads BBC Business Bulletin on China's challenge to the US in Africa
Monday, August 31, 2009
IMANI is fast gaining notoriety as the most consulted think-tank in West Africa, by global media on important issues on Africa. You can listen to previous BBC interviews and national interviews here.
Zimbabweans Ask for Small and Effective Government
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Please see Power Point presentation here.
Subsidy Blues in Ghana: Premix Fuel Mixup Hiccups
Thursday, August 20, 2009
TEDx: Banishing the Mundane from the Center of Accra
Friday, August 14, 2009 |
Ghanaians have been rejoicing over the country’s oil find. However, many are aware that finding oil can actually lead a country into trouble, a phenomenon called “Resource Curse.
On TV Africa discussing why the mobile phone magnate, Mo Ibrahim did not name a winner for his much vaunted Africa Leadership prize. Listen to the audio version 
Last week's edition of the Economist has a cover story and special report on telecoms in emerging markets. IMANI's and Mpedigree's Bright Simons and his mobile phone-based system for identifying counterfeit drugs got a mention!. 
As governments around the world stagger to provide health care for their citizens, our South African colleague, Temba
The G20 meet in Pittsburgh amid increasing protectionism: a UK cross-party group of Parliamentarians says this will hit the world's poorest hardest - but G20 leaders could help them immediately by unconditionally opening their markets to the Low Income Countries, including Ghana. The cost would be negligible but the benefits immense. Instead, the G20 plans to discuss irrelevant but populist topics such as tax havens and bankers' bonuses. 
On Monday September 14 2009, majority of Ghanaians who listened to Ghana's President's spokesperson, Mr.Mahama Ayariga venomously reacting to a harmless suggestion of ministerial reshuffle by Mr. Kofi Bentil, IMANI's Senior Fellow, no doubt confirmed that truly, a relook at some of President’s team is long overdue.
Franklin Cudjoe, Founding Director of IMANI and editor of 
The SEVEN Fund, recently published its second annual open “Enterprise Solutions to Poverty” request for proposals (RFP). The competition will award up to two (2) research grants of no more than $100,000 each.
As if to underscore the importance of information & Communication Technologies in improving upon healthcare delivery in the developing world, and the role that local innovators in countries such as Ghana, Nigeria and Rwanda, can play in that process, the Tech Museum for Innovation in San Jose California, named the mPedigree Network (
Bright Simons, IMANI's director of development research and Coordinator of 
Rejoice Ngwenya, President of COMALISO, a market-oriented think tank in Zimbabwe speaks on small and effective government in the second series of 'Talkin' Politrix' , a weekly town hall discussion in Harare- 
The authors see no economic justification for subsidizing premix fuel for fishermen. The practice, they say, is a political dance favoured by the vote-obsessed elites of our major political parties. It is also a self-reinforcing system of perverse incentives for all those lucky to be caught up in the situation’s management.