AUTHOR: MAXWELL OTENG

Wanted: Beautiful Minds and Big Ideas

May 2, 2005 | Feature Article

Military dictatorship, yamutu Parliamentary democracy, yamutu Parlia-military dictatorship, yamutu Mili-parliamentary ...

Prufrock versus Brutus

Apr 18, 2005 | Feature Article

These days when I think about the state of affairs in Ghana, I metamorphose into a nervous wreck. I feel that all well- ...

West Africa: The Devil8217;s Disneyland?

West Africa: The Devil’s Disneyland?

Jul 31, 2003 | Feature Article

Why has West Africa become so coup-a-rrific? What 8217;s wrong in West Africa? Or the question should rather be 8220; ...

Afro-sclerosis

Jul 10, 2003 | Feature Article

Ghana 8217;s economy, like those of most African countries, has been smitten by the bug of Afro-sclerosis. But then wh ...

A Haunted Country? Maybe But

Sep 19, 2002 | Feature Article

...It Must Move Forward Reasonably intelligent people know that because of the lag factor between policy decisions and ...

The Algebra Of Ineptitude: The Old Paradigm Vs The New Old Paradigm

Nov 19, 2001 | Feature Article

By Maxwell OtengSanta Cruz, November 19 2000. In our part of the world it seems that the cliché the more things change ...

Highly Innovative Prosperous Country (HIPC)?

Apr 4, 2001 | Feature Article

.... Still Dreaming By Maxwell Oteng (Santa Cruz, USA) In the rustic Kingdom of Ebiteyie-Ebi-Nso-Nnteyie-Koraa lives O ...

The Presidential Runoff: How This Year's Christmas Is Stolen

Dec 1, 2000 | Feature Article

By any stretch of imagination, if the Presidential Runoff (PR) slated for December 28 were to be scripted for a movie, i ...

The Countdown To The Elections: Millennium Memento Mori And Morning Glory

Nov 30, 2000 | Feature Article

Call it The Battle of Manifestos, and you may be close to the truth. Huh First there was the only-in-Ghana-could-this-h ...

INFLATION, DOLLARIZATION AND THE AVERAGE WORKER IN GHANA

May 1, 2000 | Feature Article

In recent days, there have been a slew of feel-good stories and saccharine oeuvre about declining inflation rate in Ghan ...

INFLATION, DOLLARIZATION AND THE AVERAGE WORKER IN GHANA

May 1, 2000 | Feature Article

In recent days, there have been a slew of feel-good stories and saccharine oeuvre about declining inflation rate in Ghan ...

OUR VISION (2020) BLURRED FOR THE NEXT MILLENNIUM?

May 1, 2000 | Feature Article

Santa Cruz, CA - When US Treasury Secretary (the equivalent of Ghana's Finance Minister) announced his resignation in th ...

Quality Education + Asceticism + Stability + Co-operation = Development

May 1, 2000 | Feature Article

Much of of the public discourse about economic development in Africa has centered mainly on democratization or re-democ ...

RE-EXAMINING AIDS AND GRANTS FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD

May 1, 2000 | Feature Article

Most of the aids /grants Ghana and the rest of the developing world receive from the West are in one way or the other ti ...

IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID!

May 1, 2000 | Feature Article

The great thing about our Economic Recovery Program is that it has offered our opinion leaders the rare opportunity of ...

LOOKING BACKWARD, MOVING FORWARD (III)

May 1, 2000 | Feature Article

George Bernard Shaw once said that the reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in try ...

LOOKING BACKWARD, MOVING FORWARD (II)

May 1, 2000 | Feature Article

The consolidation of democracy in Ghana has a great deal of geopolitical significance. In a sub-region more notorious ...

Maxwell Oteng

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