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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

By Franklin Cudjoe, Mark Schultz and Alec van Gelder

For years, musicians, film-makers and producers have complained bitterly of the failings of the Copyright Society of Ghana, the Nigerian Copyright Commission, the Senegalese Copyright Association and the rest.
But there are small signs of progress. In Ghana, Section 49 of the 2005 Copyright Act theoretically allows publishers and composers to form private royalty-collecting organisations.

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Monday, June 22, 2009

The Legacy of 2008
The Ghanaian economy at end-2008 was characterised by severe imbalances, reflected in the fiscal deficit which widened from 9% of GDP in 2007 to 14.9% of GDP in 2008. The deficit was largely driven by a lack of prudence in public spending and misplaced priorities.  Really?? 

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Thursday, June 11, 2009

For the latest on AfricanLiberty.org and IMANI advocacy on the local and international media front, please visit  link...

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Yesterday, in Washington,   AfricanLiberty.org and  IMANI  Senior Advisor, Dr. Tom Palmer, met Morgan Tsvangirai, opposition leader and prime minister of Zimbabwe, and gave him a copy of the Zimbabwe Papers, a collection of serious policy suggestions and studies that offer a way for Zimbabwe to rebuild and regain it’s place as a prosperous country once again.We’ve mentioned this report in the past.

This publication was written and established by a group of organizations across, Imani (Ghana), Institute for Public Policy Analysis (Nigeria), Free Market Foundation (South Africa), Centre des Affaires Humaines (Burkina Faso), Institute of African Economics, Zambia Institute for Public Policy Analysis, Comaliso, Law Review Project and  CETD-Nigeria. Learn more  about the campaign, and read the Zimbabwe Papers here.

Monday, June 08, 2009

By Franklin Cudjoe, Bright B. Simons & Kofi Bentil

When President Barack Obama steps foot in Ghana on the 10th of July 2009, he will be walking into one of the very few global contexts where George Bush will be a hard act to follow: “development aid to Africa”.

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Saturday, June 06, 2009

By Mark Schultz, Alec van Gelder and Franklin Cudjoe

From Highlife to Hiplife, Ghana’s sounds fill dance floors all over the continent. Unfortunately, it takes more to build a music industry than talent and (unenforced) law. Enforcement of the law and a music business with effective private institutions, such as music publishers and industry associations, are required.

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Friday, June 05, 2009

By Dr. Sodzi Sodzi-Tettey, General Secretary Ghana Medical Association

LocalFollow the intrigues of salary negotiations between Ghana’s governments and the medical fraternity. In Ghana and most African countries “health workers do not have any document that spells out the terms and conditions of their service” We at AfricanLiberty.org and IMANI have long argued, that access to health care cannot be a sanctioned human right when the basic infrastructures and reasonably well-paid doctors and nurses are non-existent. Add absence of good drinking water and good food and the real poverty profiling of diseases stare activists for free access to healthcare and health products in the face.

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

By Franklin Cudjoe

Local production of medicines is not a bad thing in itself: there are many excellent African companies producing high quality medicines. The problems start when politicians intervene by pouring public money into new factories and into propping up businesses which would otherwise go bust. Quality is usually the first victim.

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A new report from the International Policy Network and sponsored by IMANI Center for Policy & Education details the shocking burden of fake drugs in less developed countries. Fake tuberculosis and malaria drugs alone are estimated to kill 700,000 people a year. That’s equivalent to four fully laden jumbo jets crashing every day..

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Accra, May 19, 2009– The Zimbabwe Papers, a major report released today by 9 of Africa’s most respected think-tanks, examines the causes of Zimbabwe’s social and economic problems and offers a blueprint for urgent and practical reform that will enable the country to become a thriving, peaceful and prosperous country.

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The MDGs are a wonderful set of ideals, stated abstractly and as an exhortation to governments in Ghana and Africa to move beyond rhetoric. But as a guiding light for development strategy formulation (underline "strategy"), they are probably less useful.

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A lack of clarity about the nation’s development agenda should necessarily increase the local risk premium for external actors.

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Purveyors of fine pork and sausages are up in arms in many of our towns and cities. But what are our so-called experts doing about it?

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Read Ghana News Agency report here . Also, Ghana's favourite media house, Multi Media through, Joy Fm followed on with IMANI's Ofosu-Dorte's lecture with an hour and half interview today, April 29. Listen to the audio interview here.  Interview begins from window 5.

What is clear though is that without a considerable ramping of Government of Ghana's negotiation capacity, country ownership of economic management policy will have to be sacrificed for a bowl of pottage.

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IMANI named Top Go-To Think Tank in Africa and Globally

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

In the January 2009 edition of the influential Foreign Policy magazine, IMANI was named the sixth most influential think tank in Africa. Please review here

John Templeton Prize for IMANI

IMANI is the only think tank to have been awarded the John Templeton Prize twice in Africa for Advancing Freedom.

This year, IMANI was the sole recipient in Africa of the Antony & Dorian Fisher Award (Out of 180 think-tanks globally) that recognise thinkanks playing a crucial role to ensure that public policy debates are not dominated by government insiders.

A judge on the Templeton Prize awarded to IMANI commented, "I give them [IMANI] the highest points for being most specific and rigorous in applying free-market solutions to an array of complex social problems. Their submission shows the importance of using rigorously derived, quantifiable research outputs to gain credibility in shaping the policy debate. Crisp, clear, compelling data is the most useful tool to provide to any media outlet, and it's easy for the media to use, without interpretation."

 

Atlas Fisher Venture Grant Awarded to IMANI

March 25, 2008 - The Atlas Economic Research Foundation announced fisherthat IMANI Center for Policy and Education (Accra, Ghana) is the only African think tank among its first class of recipients of Dorian & Antony Fisher Venture Grants. More than 180 think tanks competed for the grants in this program, but only nine were selected to receive up to $100,000 from Atlas over the next three years. Franklin Cudjoe, the founding director of IMANI Center for Policy and Education, remarked: "Receiving this grant from the Atlas Economic Research Foundation is another great vindication of the important work IMANI began 3 years ago. We are determined to see that public policy debate in Ghana and West Africa involve students who should be informed by principled, non-partisan viewpoints." Read more

IMANI ALERT: Oil & Gas IMANI Alert: Energy (Government Charges in) The New IMF-Ghana Entente Lecture Invitation-April 28, 2009: Lawyer David Ofosu-Dorte in the IMANI Thought Leaders Forum Ghana’s Chronic Energy Crisis Ghana’s “Lactogen Banks” Free Trade Petition Used as News Commentary on Ghana's State-Owned Broadcaster African think tanks urge G20 Leaders to break down trade barriers Parliament's Vetting Process Questioned Russia Urged to Design a Long Term Engagement Strategy With Africa Policy analyst laments state of Jubilee House RED FLAG: Investor Anxiety Heightening in Ghana? In the News: Government Faulted on Energy A Few Red Flags Over Ghana’s 2009 Budget Ghana Oil & Gas Update Students & Young Professionals African Liberty Academy 2009 Vested Interests in Fake Drugs Legal Plunder! —All The President's Men Faulted Inside Africa: Sectors to watch in 2009 What to do with Africa under Gaddafi Radio Discussion on Nation Building Unravelling Ghana State-Owned Oil Refinery (TOR) Debt: A Provisional Analysis Monday, January 26, 2009 Downsizing Government in Ghana Lack of Economic Freedom Plagues Sub-Saharan Africa" -2009 Index of Economic Freedom Vast Oil Wealth Doesn't Translate into Economic Freedom"- 2009 Index of Economic Freedom Monday, January 26, 2009 Ghana's oil money could be delayed: IMANI Ghana Economic Alerts (2009 and Beyond)