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Money Saving Tip for Ghana Government Thursday, August 07, 2008 By IMANI Center for Policy & Education
Per Capita Debt Mathematics Makes Ghanaians More Indebted
Monday, August 04, 2008
Trade Beyond DOHA
Thursday, July 31, 2008 The Ghana Telecom Sale, Manifesto Uproars, and a Fascinating Link
Monday, July 28, 2008
Bright B. Simons and Franklin Cudjoe The thing with the Ghana Telecom brouhaha is that the more you listen the less clear the contentions of both side appear to become. Apart from the few ideologues on both side – those who object to the sale of a "national" asset in principle and those who hold to the view that it is criminal for the state to run any enterprise – very few commentators have concise and consistent positions regarding what is actually wrong or right about the deal...Read entire comment here.... Future Leaders Draw Inspiration From Achievers The Students and Young Professionals' Academy 2008 has ended in Accra with a call for African leaders to look inwardly for solutions to the continent's problems. Lecture: The Rule of Law: Accountability of Public Institutions
Read entire newspaper story here... IMANI/ AFRICANLIBERTY.ORG Seminar: A Rewarding Summer Experience for 40 Young Africans
Our weeklong seminar for students and young professionals ended last week Friday, the 27th of June. We had spent the preceding 3 months in a grueling selection process that saw 40 sharp, young, minds emerge triumphant from a competitive pool of 250+ candidates. Which of course meant that we were faced with the challenge to craft a program worthy of such special people. We think we did a fair job of measuring up to that task (though we say so ourselves:)) You can judge for yourself, dear friend, by visiting the seminar website: here and pondering over this email sent to us by some of the participants Seminar Participants Experiences Shared You might be pondering over these emails sent to us by some of the participants; Tsonam Cleanse Akpeloo
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The SEVEN Fund $50k VINE Project: Developing Investment Indicators for Emerging Market SMEs An open source competition that aims to find new indicators that facilitate/increase investments in emerging market SMEs. Anyone and everyone is encouraged to participate and compete for the $50k prizeCheck it out:
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 Thickheadedness on African debt Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Special to The Japan Times
ACCRA, Ghana "For too long, ordinary Africans have struggled to get ahead because of
poor governance, corruption and a general lack of economic freedom; the G8 would only perpetuate these policies with its well-intentioned, yet ill-practiced policies on debt forgiveness." Visit The Japan Times to read full article Also Published in; The Ghanaian Times
Anti-Foreign Aid converts in Spain JUNE 2008AfricanLiberty.org editor and director of IMANI, Franklin Cudjoe, is in Madrid as a guest of the Regional Governmnet of Madrid. He was invited to speak on a range of development issues, especially aid and delivery of public services. |
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