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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 |
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Since Dr Kwame Nkrumahs official election as the greatest African of all time and even more so this year because of the globally reported Golden Anniversary celebrations many Ghanaians whenever they encounter other Africans on the continent or in the Diaspora feel increasingly under pressure to admit to guilt over the overthrow of Nkru ... Read more |
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Monday, July 20, 2009 |
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President Barack Obama has left What did he leave us with Did he pump us full of gas as in hysteric euphoria and an overdose of sentimentality Or did his rousing speeches inspirational nay extraordinary presence and symbolic choice of Ghana instil a genuine sense of awakeningA few days following his departure as if on cue Gh ... Read more |
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Friday, May 01, 2009 |
Attempts to produce commercial quantities of oil in Ghana date from the late th Century and at regular intervals between that time and the present the West African country has had its hopes dashed by enthusiastic announcements of commercial oil finds that have later turned out to be prematureAnticipation was therefore far from fervent when ... Read more |
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Monday, April 27, 2009 |
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April It is true that the World Bank seems eager to lend money to Ghana In recent statements the Bank has highlighted that billion is available in undisbursed current project funds and that a further year funding allocation of billion is pending of which something in the region of million could be frontloaded ie disb ... Read more |
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 |
The Honourable Minister of Finance and a highpowered fiveperson Ghanaian delegation are in Washington DC attending the World Bank IMF Spring Conference as we write Information trickling down to us suggests that the Ghanaian team will be exploring prospects for expanded assistance to Ghana from the Bretton Woods institutions Government o ... Read more |
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009 |
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We have addressed in various media different aspects of the energy situation in this country This approach has not succeeded very much in depicting the full scale of the challenge that confronts us nor has it been very helpful in portraying the interlinkages between the various problems But energy expenditure constitutes nearly of our GDP ... Read more |
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Friday, April 03, 2009 |
It is reporting season for our illustrious corporate citizens the BanksEnd of year results for two of Ghanas most respected banks Ecobank and Calbank have just been released And what a spectacular set of figures they were The combined yearonyear growth in revenues of the two financial institutions averages more than Impressi ... Read more |
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 |
At a forum in Accra on Tuesday the th of March called to discuss the Global Economic Crisis a number of highly informed speakers mentioned a growing perception that Ghanas investment climate risks are deterioratingWhile the empirical evidence is patchy at present there is a clear trend of accelerating capital outflows Some have ... Read more |
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Sunday, March 22, 2009 |
The current confusion over the indictment of Omar Bashir President of Sudan compels me to do something I try to avoid rehashing old articles written for an earlier era But it appears to me that the situation hasnt evolved much and therefore that it is justifiable in such circumstances for one to repeat oneself One wonders why Bashirs in ... Read more |
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 |
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We should commend the Honourable Minister of Finance for a valiant effort at producing a relatively bold and comprehensive budget for The document and the parliamentary address that launched it were replete with lofty sentiments and noble intentions Every emphasis was on social democratic agenda a phrase interpreted to be synonymous with ... Read more |
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009 |
Since our last comment on Ghanas nascent oil industry which raised questions about the production timelines and economic projections of the oil production companies we have been inundated with feedback identifying aspects of the issue we had omitted in our analysisIt is not our intent to respond to these various criticisms positive and ne ... Read more |
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Thursday, February 12, 2009 |
Experts at the World Economic Forum in Davos while discussing the session on Africa said the continent though not insulated from the global financial crisis will perform relatively better than other regions of the world in The tempered optimism is fuelled by the fact that Africas capital markets except for South Africa are not integrat ... Read more |
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 |
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Bright B Simons and Franklin Cudjoe are affiliated with IMANI The Center for Policy EducationNo comprehensive report has thus far been issued on the recent and present condition of the State petroleum refinery TOR that we are aware of not by the Ministry of Energy and not by TOR itself One hopes that this dearth of information will soon ... Read more |
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Monday, January 12, 2009 |
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The newly elected government has barely settled in and the threeman committee tasked to coordinate the transition from the economic policy of the erstwhile government to a new regime under the incoming administration has yet to issue a preliminary reportIn keeping with IMANIs oftrepeated assertion that civil society ought to take the lead ... Read more |
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Friday, December 19, 2008 |
I was recently asked to comment on the outlook in for African economies in the face of a sudden downturn in commodity prices and within the broader context of the ongoing global economic crisis It occurs to me that my responses might deserve a wider audience hence this articleFirst of all let us keep things in perspective It is true t ... Read more |
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Sunday, December 07, 2008 |
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Ghanaians are voting as I writeThey are at the polls to elect the sixth democratically chosen President and legislature in the countrys year postcolonial history Of the regimes that have ruled the former British colony in that period have been military insurrectionistsMost of the streets are deserted but not from any fear of vi ... Read more |
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Friday, November 07, 2008 |
Picture the scene It is early The great and good of Africa are gathered at one of their usual grand soirees Maybe a side event at the UN or just as likely the main piece of the AU Mugabe has the mikeHis beginning remarks are fairly mundane enough a rallying call for Africans to rise up to their own destiny There is even some scatt ... Read more |
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Sunday, October 12, 2008 |
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Herman Chinery Hesse has been a personal inspiration for quite some time now A thoughtful deeply reflective acquaintance To the wider community he is a social commentator technologist astute entrepreneur social visionary lay jurist street philosopher and an agnostic cultural materialist He is also quite simply The Bill Gates o ... Read more |
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Thursday, September 25, 2008 |
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CENTER X Y Z WWe wrote in an earlier article httpafricanlibertyorgnode that the political programs of all the political parties are or should be significantly restricted by the financial figures they are able to produce in support of their pledgesFor example if a political party pledges that it shall expend X ... Read more |
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Friday, September 12, 2008 |
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The question explicit in the title of this article is directed at the political parties aspiring to govern this countryWe are by no means ignorant of the fact that nations are infinitely more complex than businesses Nor are we by business plan referring to those multiyear development plans favoured by certain political visionaries ONCE ... Read more |
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Friday, August 15, 2008 |
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Most of Africa is in a deepening state of deindustrialisation Even mighty South Africa once a contender in the same leagues as Brazil and Israel with its nuclear bombmaking antics and machine fabrication edge is today in a subtle retreat from manufacturing into the comforting arms of financial services and tourism upswings this year are ... Read more |
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Sunday, July 27, 2008 |
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We prefer not to comment on highly partisan issues since they tend to be belaboured and the prospect of adding value to the discussion therefore diminishes according to the extent of partisan passionBut we couldnt help wade into the GT saga and the sizeable hubbub generated by the launch of the CPP manifesto Especially as we believe we hav ... Read more |
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Saturday, July 19, 2008 |
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Six weeks from now a conference is supposed to take place in the West African country of Ghana that its organizers and participants claim will transform the aid process for the better But mark our words nothing remotely like that will happen Dont be fooled by the slogans and slick marketing the Aid industry has no intention of changi ... Read more |
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 |
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The historical Bonfires of the Vanities were curious affairs the more of ones wealth one destroyed in the ritual fire the higher the status of prosperity one earned th Century Florence as the scene of the most lurid of these spectacles of mass burning also witnessed their transformation from purification ceremonies of guiltcleansing into ... Read more |
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Monday, May 12, 2008 |
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Recently a commentator published an article about the free market and food security on a much patronised Ghanaian news website Full of passion but unfortunately lacking in depth of analysis his views summarises a great deal of the reactions to the socalled global food crisis that have come from leftist or left of center pundits in recent wee ... Read more |
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Sunday, May 11, 2008 |
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These days most observers like to refer to China as the Asian giant Combining this with the usual epithets presumably give us Giant Dragon China the Great Asian Dragon The Great Giant Dragon that bestrides the Pacific The Asian powers recent behavior ranging from its reactions to the Tibetan crisis to its judgment calls in the Zim ... Read more |
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Sunday, December 05, 2004 |
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He woke up at half past six and as was his custom said a little prayer before he moved to the lavatory for his morning ablutions Reenergised by the warm shower he returned to the bedroom to prepare for the new day it promised to be as hectic as any other in this most frantic of weeks Picking up his desktop diary which also doubled as his app ... Read more |
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