The Students and Young Professionals African Liberty Academy 2010: Talking Freedom in East Africa
Thursday, September 02, 2010
If one of our core objectives was training a new corps of future visionaries and leaders who will carry the torch of liberty and blaze the trail of prosperity in the coming dawn of African renaissance, we needed to sow our seeds across the continent so, we can raise many champions of freedom, who, otherwise would have been limited by finance to travel outside of their regions.
World Bank asks IMANI to help shape its Africa Strategy
Wednesday, September 03, 2010
The IMANI team, the President of the World Bank Ghana Africa Region a senior government official and representatives of the private sector met over the weekend (August 27-29) to consolidate feedback from some 40 consultations in Africa on the World Bank’s Africa Action Plan.
IMANI had earlier convened a motley crowd of entrepreneurs, NGO leaders, top international diplomats, former Ministers of State, investment bankers, trade unionists, leading business executives, technocrats and intellectuals of all shades to discuss and influence the scope and direction of a new 3-year African strategy for the World Bank. That the lot fell on IMANI to help shape the World Bank’s strategy for Africa, we are grateful and humbled, even though we have, and are calling for an exit strategy for the bank, whilst de-emphasising the sole use of aid for development and encouraging African governments to run freer economies and transparent governance. IMANI will write a detailed report soon. Read our earlier report here.
Ghana’s Anti-Business Clampdown
Friday, August 27, 2010
By Thompson Ayodele and Olusegun Sotola
Ghana congratulates itself on massive increases in foreign investment on big-ticket projects, up 800% at US$161.34 million in the first quarter of 2010, but business and trade restrictions make Ghanaian consumers suffer higher prices and undermine sustainable, widespread economic growth.
What is the Best Way to Help the World's Deserving Poor?
The Sunday Telegraph (UK) August 22, 2010
IMANI- sponsored letter in the The Sunday Telegraph (UK) August 22, 2010
As Africans, we urge the generous-spirited British to reconsider an aid programme they can ill afford, and which we do not want or need. A real offer from the British people to help our development would consist of the abolition of the Common Agricultural Policy, which keeps African agricultural exports out of the European marketplace.
Read the letter here.
What do AIDS Activists Want More Money For?
Thursday, August 05, 2010
By Roger England
With drugs now less than US$100 per person per year, treating the five million people now on therapy should cost US$500 million, say US$1 billion including logistics and support. Yet the world spends US$16 billion annually on HIV. Where’s it going?
Water: This Rght is Wrong
Thursday, August 05, 2010
By Jacob Mchangama
On 28 July a big majority of the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution recognizing “safe and clean drinking water and sanitation” as a human right. Considering that some 2,5 billion people lack sanitation and 900 million people do not have access to safe drinking water this might seem like a welcome development. But turning water and sanitation into a human right is a threat to the poor and to law.
IMANI Confers with Leading Global Thinkers on Trade Issues
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Last week, IMANI Ghana Executives participated in the last of a series of high-level workshops jointly organised by GARNET (the Network of Excellence on Global Governance, Regionalisation & Regulation) and the prestigious Evian Group at IMD (the International Institute for Management Development) in Lausanne, Switzerland.
IMANI Special Report on the STX-Ghana Deal
Monday, July 05, 2010
Since the STX-Ghana deal took its sour turn towards controversy, many people have asked us, usually privately, what a pro-market organisation such as ours is doing “opposing” a business deal that seems to benefit the private sector more than the public sector.